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October 15, 2018
To Whom it may concern:
NTT URBAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Rep: Hiroshi Nakagawa
President and Chief Executive Officer
(Tokyo Stock Exchange (First Section) Code No.8933)
Attn: Hideyuki Yamasawa
Executive Vice President
Corporate Strategy Department
(TEL: +81-3-6811-6424)
Announcement of Opinion to Support the Tender Offer for Our Shares By NTT-SH Corporation
which is a Subsidiary of Our Parent Company, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, and the
Recommendation of the Tender thereto
NTT Urban Development Corporation (the “Company”) hereby announces that, the Company resolved at the meeting
of the board of directors held today to express an opinion supporting the tender offer (the “Tender Offer”) by NTT-SH
Corporation (the “Offeror”) for common shares of the Company (the “Company Shares”) and to recommend the
shareholders of the Company to tender in the Tender Offer as follows.
The aforementioned resolution at the meeting of the board of directors was adopted on the understanding that Nippon
Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (“NTT”) (NTT and the Offeror are collectively referred to as the “Offerors”), the
wholly-owning parent company of the Offeror, and the Offeror intend to make the Company a wholly-owned subsidiary of
the Offerors through the Tender Offer by Offeror and a series of procedures to be implemented thereafter, and the Company
Shares are to be delisted.
1. Overview of the Offeror
(1) Name NTT-SH Corporation
(2) Address 1-5-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
(3) Name and title of
representative Katsumi Kuroda, President and Representative Director
(4) Description of business Holding and managing the Company Shares
(5) Capital stock JPY 3 million
(6) Date of incorporation August 29, 2007
(7)
Major shareholders and
shareholding ratios
(as of October 15, 2018)
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation 100.00%
(8) Relationship between the Company and the Offeror
Capital relationship
Not applicable.
As of today, NTT, the wholly-owning parent company of the Offeror, holds
221,481,500 shares of the Company Shares (Ownership Ratio (Note) of 67.30%
(rounded off to two decimal places, and hereinafter the same as long as no other
treatment is provided for in the calculation of that ratio)).
Personal relationship
Not applicable.
As of today, one director and one corporate auditor of the Company are
concurrently employees of NTT, the wholly-owning parent company of the Offeror.
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Business relationship
Not applicable.
The Company leases offices to NTT, the wholly-owning parent company of the
Offeror. Transactions such as depositing and loaning of cash have been conducted
with NTT Finance Corporation, whose parent company is NTT.
Status as related parties NTT, the wholly-owning parent company of the Offeror, is a parent of the
Company and the Offeror corresponds to a related party of the Company.
(Note) “Ownership Ratio” means the ratio of the shares owned to the number of shares (329,119,923 shares) obtained by
deducting the number of the Company’s treasury shares owned by the Company as of June 30, 2018 as set out in
the consolidated summary of accounts (IFRS) for the first quarter of the business period ending March 2019
submitted by the Company on August 3, 2018 (77 shares) from the total number of issued shares as of June 30,
2018 set out in the 34th First Quarterly Securities Report submitted by the Company on August 6, 2018
(329,120,000 shares).
2. Tender Offer Price
JPY 1,680 per share of common stock (the “Tender Offer Price”)
3. Details and Grounds and Reasons for, the Opinion Regarding the Tender Offer
(1) Details of the Opinion
Based on the grounds and reasons set out in “(2) Grounds and Reasons for the Opinion Regarding the Tender Offer”
below, the Company resolved at the meeting of the board of directors held today to express an opinion supporting the
Tender Offer and to recommend the shareholders of the Company to tender in the Tender Offer.
The aforementioned resolution at the meeting of the board of directors was resolved pursuant to the method set out in
“e. Approval of all Directors who do not have an Interest in the Company and Opinion by all Corporate Auditors who
do not have an Interest that there is no Objection” in “(6) Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Such as
Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Price and Measures to Avoid Conflicts of Interest” below.
(2) Grounds and Reasons for the Opinion Regarding the Tender Offer
a. Overview of the Tender Offer
The Company received an explanation from the Offerors on the overview of the Tender Offer as follows.
The Offeror is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NTT, which holds all of the issued shares of the Offeror, and the
Offeror is a stock company whose principal purpose is to acquire and own the Company Shares listed on the First
Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. (the “TSE”) through the Tender Offer. As stated in “(ii) Management
Policy after Completion of the Tender Offer” in “b. Background Leading to the Decision to Implement the Tender
Offer, Purpose and Decision-Making Process of the Tender Offer, and Management Policy after the Tender Offer”
below, it is expected that the Offeror will be a holding company within the NTT Group (meaning, collectively, NTT
and 922 consolidated subsidiaries, including the Company, and 118 affiliates of NTT (as of March 31, 2018),
hereinafter the same) that promotes new urban solutions business (the “Urban Solutions Business Promotion
Company”) in a manner unique to the NTT Group.
As of today, the Offeror does not own any Company Shares, but NTT, which is the wholly-owning parent company
of the Offeror, owns 221,481,500 Company Shares (Ownership Ratio 67.30% (the “Company Shares Held by the
Parent Company of the Offeror”) as of today, and the Company is treated as a consolidated subsidiary of NTT.
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As stated in “(i) Background Leading to the Decision to Implement the Tender Offer and Purpose and
Decision-Making Process of the Tender Offer” in “b. Background Leading to the Decision to Implement the Tender
Offer, Purpose and Decision-Making Process of the Tender Offer, and Management Policy after the Tender Offer”
below, NTT, which is the wholly-owning parent company of the Offeror, decided at its board of directors meeting
held today to conduct a series of transactions for the purpose of making the Company a wholly-owned subsidiary of
the Offerors by the Offeror acquiring all of the Company Shares (excluding the Company Shares Held by the Parent
Company of the Offeror and the Company’s treasury shares owned by the Company), and the Offeror decided
today to conduct the Tender Offer.
No maximum or minimum number of Share Certificates, Etc. to be purchased has been set in the Tender Offer, so
the Offeror will purchase all of the Share Certificates, Etc. tendered in the Tender Offer.
Given that the Offeror intends to make the Company a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Offeror, if the Offeror is not
able to acquire all of the Company Shares (excluding the Company Shares Held by the Parent Company of the
Offeror and the Company’s treasury shares owned by the Company) through the Tender Offer, the Offeror will
implement procedures for the purpose of making the Offeror the sole shareholder of the Company (the
“Squeeze-out Procedures”). For details, see “(5) Policy of Restructuring, Etc. after the Tender Offer (Matters
Concerning So-Called Two-Step Acquisition)” below.
NTT plans on making a contribution in kind to the Offeror of all of the Company Shares Held by the Parent
Company of the Offeror (the “Contribution In Kind,” and together with the Tender Offer and the Squeeze-out
Procedures, collectively, the “Transaction”) as consideration for the shares issued by the Offeror after the
completion of the settlement of the Tender Offer and before the completion of the Squeeze-out Procedures.
Details of the conditions of the Contribution In Kind have not been determined at this point, but it is expected the
number of shares to be issued by the Offeror with respect to one Company Share as consideration for the
Contribution In Kind will not be on conditions that are more favorable for NTT than the Tender Offer Price.
b. Background Leading to the Decision to Implement the Tender Offer, Purpose and Decision-Making Process of the
Tender Offer, and Management Policy after the Tender Offer
The Company received an explanation from the Offerors on the background leading to the decision to implement
the Tender Offer, the purpose and the decision-making process of the Tender Offer, and the management policy after
the Tender Offer as follows.
(i) Background Leading to the Decision to Implement the Tender Offer and Purpose and Decision-Making Process of
the Tender Offer
The Offeror is a stock company and all of its issued shares are owned by NTT. NTT, which is the
wholly-owning parent company of the Offeror, was established under the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Corporation Act (Act No. 85 of 1984) and was listed on the First Section of the TSE in February 1987. The
contents of the principal businesses of the NTT Group are as follows.
(a) Regional communications business: Providing intra-prefectural communications services in a domestic
telecommunications business and businesses incidental thereto
(b) Long distance and international communications business: Inter-prefectural communications service,
international communications business, and solutions business in a domestic telecommunications business
and businesses related thereto
(c) Mobile communications business: Mobile telephone business and businesses related thereto
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(d) Data communications businesses: Businesses such as network system services and system integration
(e) Other businesses: Real estate business, financial business, construction and electric power business, system
development business, advanced technology development business, etc.
It is expected that in the information and telecommunications market, to which NTT belongs, the development of
new technology such as the accelerated use of cloud services, the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, and AI
(Artificial Intelligence). Furthermore, with the entrance of new player, market competition that surpasses
existing business sector boundaries is expected to further intensify, and collaborative coordination and cooperation
among businesses working to create new added value should also progress. From these changes, the required
role of information and communications should both expand and become more important.
Under those circumstances, NTT formulated and announced a medium-term management strategy in May 2015
for the period from FY 2015 to FY 2017 called “Towards the New Stage 2.0.” Under that plan, NTT has worked
to reform its business structure, utilized the management resources it had developed up to that point, and
endeavored to continuously improve the corporate value of the NTT Group by using and applying information
and communications technology (ICT). As a result, in the final consolidated fiscal year, the target fiscal year,
EPS (earnings per share), the most important target, reached JPY 456, achieving the target of JPY 400 or more,
and the operating revenue, operating income, and current net profits all reached record highs.
At the same time, in the three years since the formulation and announcement of above plan, business has
continued to expand in and outside of Japan, but the external business environment is undergoing significant
changes and competition has remained strong. NTT is, as an initiative towards expanding its current B2B2X
business (Note 1), endeavoring to solve various social issues and create new social value by accumulating a large
amount of data in terms of type and volume by connecting everything with networks through the IoT and utilizing
the cloud, and then analyzing that data using AI. Specifically, NTT has a policy to utilize a cognitive foundation
(Note 2) and other systems, and promote smartification such as Smart City, Smart Hospital, Smart Airport, Smart
Stadium, and Smart Factory. In particular, by expanding collaborations with service providers such as
businesses in other fields and local governments, and by supporting digital transformations of service providers,
NTT will contribute to resolving social issues and accelerate the creation of new value.
(Note 1) Framework to solve social issues and provide new value creation to end users (X) together with service
providers by expanding collaborations with service providers such as businesses in other fields and
local governments (B) and supporting digital transformations of service providers
(Note 2) Framework that allows the integrated execution of the creation and configuration and the management
and operation of not only cloud and network services, but also user ICT resources
The NTT Group is aiming to achieve continuous growth over the medium- to long-term by supporting
transformation (digital transformation) of service providers and creating new businesses by utilizing the personnel,
technologies, and assets held by the NTT Group as “Your Value Partner”, with its constant fundamental shared
values of connect, trust, and integrity.
Meanwhile, in January 1986, the Company was established as a wholly-owned subsidiary of NTT for the purpose
of utilizing unused land owned by NTT. When the Company was founded, the Company received land and
buildings owned by NTT as investments in kind (Note 3). The Company built new office buildings, retail
facilities and residential facilities on the land, and has mainly operated rental business of these real estate.
NTT established real estate companies across the country for the same purpose and by the same method. The
Company has expanded its asset size while implementing absorption-type merger with these companies. In
particular, the asset size of the Company reached the current level by implementing absorption-type merger with
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real estate companies in five cities (Sapporo, Nagoya, Osaka, Hiroshima and Fukuoka) in April 1999.
In addition, the Company Shares were listed on the First Section of the TSE in November 2004, and then the
Company has advanced into new business: large-scale redevelopment, fund business (management of REIT and
Fund), retail business (real estate rental business concerning retail facilities and hotels developed and owned by
the Company etc.), global business (investment and management of real estate in the United Kingdom and the
United States etc.), and has grown and expanded as a comprehensive real estate developer.
As of today, the Company Group (meaning, collectively, the Company, its consolidated subsidiaries and its
equity-method affiliates, hereinafter the same) consists of the Company, its 29 consolidated subsidiaries and its 26
equity-method affiliates. The main business of the Company Group is the Office/Retail Business (rental
business concerning real estate such as office buildings, retail facilities, hotels etc. which are developed and
owned by the Company) and the Residential Business (mainly for the sales of residential properties business, the
rental housing business and the serviced senior housing business etc.), and the Company Group engages the other
business such as building maintenance of office buildings. In addition, the Company Group engages in
comprehensive real estate business nationwide in a corporate group whose parent company is NTT which
primarily engages in regional communications business, long distance and international communications business,
mobile communications and data communications business.
The Company Group aims to enhance its corporate value by providing customers with valuable real estate
services, and to increase stakeholder satisfaction, in line with its corporate slogan of “Integrity of Innovation”. In
May 2013, the Company formulated the Medium-Term Vision 2018 – For Further Growth – for the period from
FY 2013 to FY 2018, based on environmental changes such as the continuation of development rush mainly on
the city center, rising construction costs and land and building prices mainly in the metropolitan area. In this
plan, the Company Group lists strengthening its revenue base in its each business and expanding the business
territory as its business policy, and is steadily proceeding with achieving financial targets and expanding its
management base.
While approaching the final fiscal year of this plan, the Company is concentrating on its each business to achieve
operating income of 30 billion yen, which is the profit target for 2018 fiscal year, however, in addition to the
uncertainty about the future of the real estate market in Japan because of the downward trend of population due to
the declining birthrate and the aging population, there is a situation in which it is difficult to acquire land such as
remained high price of land for business, mainly in metropolitan areas.
Regarding the rental office market, the capacity utilization maintains high rate and the rents are also steady,
however, the large supply of buildings by the large-scale redevelopment continues in central Tokyo, for example,
even in the metropolitan area there is concern regarding the future supply-demand relationship. Regarding the
housing sales market, while the demand is strong mainly in properties in central Tokyo due to the financial
environment with low interest rate etc., with the prediction that the domestic population will continue to decline in
the future, it is necessary to keep an eye on its sustainability.
In these environment, the Company Group is proceeding with the following policy for its each business.
(a) The Office/Retail Business: Because of the anticipated continuous large supply of office buildings, the
Company Group will strengthen its relations with tenants, maintain stable business operation, and provide
offices that accommodate new work styles such as shared office.
(b) The Residential Business: The Company Group will carry out product planning from the customer’s
perspective based on changes of lifestyle and demographics, and seeks further growth through the expansion
of residential businesses for the elderly, the renovation business, and residential rentals business.
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(c) New initiatives: In the Global business, the Company Group pursue to improve its assets value with the aim
of sustainable growth and diversification of the portfolio. In the Hotel/Resort business, the Company
Group aim to stabilize revenue early by accumulating know-how on hotel management and innovate it to
composite development in the future. Regarding the NTT Group CRE (utilization of real estate owned by
the NTT Group), the Company Group will further strengthen its growth strategy by developing
redevelopment know-how accumulated since listing the Company Shares.
To realize sustainable growth in the future, the Company has promoted its business as stated (a) to (c) above in
order to promote high value-added development without regard to the existing business framework, and has
entered a stage of further strengthening the growth strategy mainly supported by NTT Group CRE, in which the
Company has begun discussing urban development projects, including not only real estate owned by the NTT
Group but also its surrounding land in order to expand the know-how on redevelopment accumulated since listing
to the NTT Group CRE more than ever.
(Note 3) NTT established the Company in the form of subsequent incorporation (so-called irregular investment
in kind): NTT established the Company through money contribution and then handed over properties
that it had planned to contribute at bool values. When founded, the Company took over land and
building owned by NTT at book values.
According to NTT, the real estate business environment surrounding the NTT Group including the Company has,
with respect to the office leasing market in particular, seen steady improvement with vacancy rates at a low level
and a broad increase in rent against the backdrop of solid performances in the tenant business. At the same time,
when making investments to start operations of new properties, with a favorable financing environment on the
back of historically low interest rate levels resulting from the ongoing negative interest rate policy, competition in
the environment for acquiring sites for new development and properties is intensifying and it appears that trend
will continue in the future. Further, with respect to the residential property sales market, there has been an
increase in condominium sales prices resulting from a rise in construction and site acquisition costs, demographic
changes such as a decrease in the population of young people, an aging population, and an increase in one-person
households and changes to peoples’ lifestyles and work styles, and NTT believes it is necessary to respond to
those changes.
In those business environments, NTT believes it is important to promote urban solutions that are in a manner
unique to the NTT Group beyond its existing real estate development.
With the aim of realizing a smart city concept that aims to resolve a wide-range of urban problems such as
preventing disasters and preventing crime, resolving traffic problems, and reducing the environmental impact by
utilizing IoT and managing and controlling urban infrastructures with ICT, the NTT Group will work towards new
urban solutions business (the “Urban Solutions Business”) with the overall ability of the NTT Group by utilizing
to the maximum extent real estate, ICT, technology for energy efficiency, environmental technology and other
resources held by the NTT Group other than the Company Group, and through those efforts, the NTT Group will
aim to achieve profit growth for the entire NTT Group.
In aiming to achieve growth in the Urban Solutions Business, NTT believes it is important to have the Company,
which plays a central role in the real estate business in the NTT Group, take the lead in promoting the Urban
Solutions Business, combine the real estate held by the NTT Group and the strengths of each company such as
ICT, technology for energy efficiency, and environmental technology, and take full advantage of those strengths.
Specifically, NTT plans to unify the business strategies of the NTT Group and implement the following measures.
(a) Expand its business by utilizing real estate owned by telephone exchanges and offices, which are
telecommunications bases in regional cities throughout Japan that are owned by the NTT Group other than
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the Company Group
(b) Expand its business by strengthening alliances with the Company, which operates businesses such as real
estate development and management, and with NTT FACILITIES, INC. (“NTT FACILITIES”), which
manages construction and energy businesses that support the NTT Group’s ICT platforms, and by actively
utilizing resources connected with construction and energy
(c) Contribute to new “urban solutions” by utilizing all the resources of the NTT Group and collaborating with
enterprises and local governments
NTT believes that in order to swiftly promote the above initiatives and measures for the entire NTT Group, it is
important to strengthen group alliances more than ever by making the Company a wholly-owned subsidiary of the
Offeror and centralizing and streamlining decision making in the group management strategy, and it believes the
Company Group and the companies in the NTT Group other than the Company Group promoting initiatives and
measures swiftly in a unified manner is the ideal choice to improve the medium- to long-term corporate value of
the Company Group and the NTT Group including the Company Group.
Further, NTT believes that, in executing the above initiatives and measures, upfront investments that do not
automatically lead to maximizing the profits of the Company in the short term might arise and it might be
necessary to swiftly carry out measures such as a concentration of the assets of the entire NTT Group, which
would lead to a temporary cost increase, and although those measures will become necessary from the perspective
of the medium- to long-term growth of the Company Group and the entire NTT Group including the Company
Group, NTT has concerns from the perspective of flexible and agile decision-making about the implementation of
those measures while the Company is still a listed company because those measures may harm the interests of
existing shareholders of the Company in the short term.
Hence, NTT believes that, as a result of the Company becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Offerors
through the Transaction, any potential conflict of interest between the parent company and the minority
shareholders resulting from parent-subsidiary listings will be resolved and the Company’s decision making will be
even more flexible and agile, and NTT is able to promote growth that is built on the medium- to long-term
perspective of the Company Group and the NTT Group.
Based on that understanding, NTT determined that it would be desirable to make the Company a direct or indirect
wholly-owned subsidiary of NTT, and it started considering the Transaction from early May 2018. In early July
2018, NTT appointed Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., Ltd. (“Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley
Securities”) as its financial advisor and third-party valuation agent, which is independent from the Offerors and
the Company, and Mori Hamada & Matsumoto as its legal advisor and NTT made an initial request to the
Company stating that it would like to consider and discuss the Transaction. Following that, NTT commenced
due diligence of the Company with the approval of the Company from late July 2018, and it completed that due
diligence in late August 2018.
As a result of receipt of the initial request for the Transaction from NTT in early July 2018, the Company
appointed Nomura Securities as its financial advisor and third-party valuation agent, which is independent from
the Offerors and the Company, and TMI Associates as its legal advisor, and the Company requested Nomura
Securities, a third-party valuation agent, to calculate the value of the Company Shares and to express an opinion
that the Tender Offer Price is reasonable from a financial point of view to shareholders of the Company excluding
NTT (fairness opinion), in order to ensure the fairness of the Transaction including the Tender Offer such as
fairness of the Tender Offer Price. Also, the Company established the third-party committee (for details of the
composition and specific activities of the third-party committee, see “d. Establishment of a Third-Party
Committee that is Independent from the Company and the Offerors” in “(6) Measures to Ensure Fairness in the
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Tender Offer Such as Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Price and Measures to Avoid Conflicts of
Interest” below in order to examine the proposal of the Transaction. The details of these measures are as stated
in “(6) Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Such as Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer
Price and Measures to Avoid Conflicts of Interest” below.
Based on that, NTT and the Company have had multiple discussions and deliberations since early September
2018 on measures to improve the corporate value of both companies such as strengthening the Urban Solutions
Business and streamlining their management by promoting further group management, as well as matters such as
the purpose of the Transaction, the management system and policy after the Transaction, and the conditions of the
Transaction.
As a result, NTT concluded at its board of directors meeting held today that making the Company a
wholly-owned subsidiary of the Offerors is the best way to improve the corporate value of the entire NTT Group,
and it decided to execute a series of transactions for the purpose of making the Company a wholly-owned
subsidiary of the Offerors by the Offeror acquiring all of the Company Shares (excluding the Company Shares
Held by the Parent Company of the Offeror and the Company’s treasury shares owned by the Company), and on
the same date, the Offeror decided to conduct the Tender Offer.
(ii) Management Policy after Completion of the Tender Offer
NTT has a policy where, after the Company has become a wholly-owned subsidiary, it will continue to conduct
management aimed at further improving the corporate value of the Company, and NTT will conduct management
that fully utilizes the Company’s business characteristics and strengths and endeavor to strengthen the Company’s
business. In addition, in order to establish a robust cooperative framework between each company of the NTT
Group other than the Company and the Company Group, and to achieve medium- to long-term growth of the
Urban Solutions Business of the entire NTT Group, NTT will consider establishing a new structure in which the
Company and NTT FACILITIES, which operates the construction and energy business that supports the ICT
platforms of the NTT Group, will coordinate with each other closely under the Offeror as the Urban Solutions
Business Promotion Company, by transferring NTT FACILITIES to under the control of the Offeror.
The management system of the Company after the Transaction has not been determined at this point, and it is
expected an optimal system aimed at executing the measures set out in “(i) Background Leading to the Decision
to Implement the Tender Offer and Purpose and Decision-Making Process of the Tender Offer” above and further
strengthening the Company’s business foundation will be established after discussions with the Company.
c. Course of Decision-Making of the Company
As stated in “b. Background Leading to the Decision to Implement the Tender Offer, Purpose and Decision-Making
Process of the Tender Offer, and Management Policy after the Tender Offer” above, as a result of receipt of the
initial request for the Transaction from NTT in early July 2018, the Company appointed Nomura Securities as its
financial advisor and third-party valuation agent, which is independent from the Offerors and the Company, and
TMI Associates as its legal advisor, and the Company requested Nomura Securities, a third-party valuation agent, to
calculate the value of the Company Shares and to express an opinion that the Tender Offer Price is reasonable from
a financial point of view to shareholders of the Company excluding NTT (fairness opinion), in order to ensure the
fairness of the Transaction including the Tender Offer such as fairness of the Tender Offer Price. Also, the
Company established the third-party committee (for details of the composition and specific activities of the
third-party committee, see “d. Establishment of a Third-Party Committee that is Independent from the Company
and the Offerors” in “(6) Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Such as Measures to Ensure Fairness in
the Tender Offer Price and Measures to Avoid Conflicts of Interest” below in order to examine the proposal of the
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Transaction. The details of these measures are as stated in “(6) Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer
Such as Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Price and Measures to Avoid Conflicts of Interest” below.
Based on that, the Company have had multiple discussions and deliberations with NTT since early September 2018
on measures to improve the corporate value of both companies such as strengthening the Urban Solutions Business
and streamlining their management by promoting further group management, as well as matters such as the purpose
of the Transaction, the management system and policy after the Transaction, and the conditions of the Transaction.
In addition, the Company received the legal advice from the legal advisor, TMI Associates, on the decision-making
process, the decision-making method and other points to be noted in making decisions concerning the Transaction
including the Tender Offer, and received the report from the Third-Party Committee on October 12, 2018 (the
“Report") (For the outline of the Report and the detail of activities of the Third Party Committee etc., please see "d.
Establishment of a Third-Party Committee that is Independent from the Company and the Offerors " of "(6)
Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Such as Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Price and
Measures to Avoid Conflicts of Interest” below). Furthermore, based on the legal advice given by the legal advisor,
TMI Associates and the share valuation report regarding the Company Shares (the “Company Share Valuation
Report”) and the content of the opinion that the Tender Offer Price is reasonable from a financial point of view to
shareholders of the Company excluding NTT (fairness opinion) provided by the third-party valuation agent,
Nomura Securities on October 12, 2018, and respecting the contents of the Report provided by the third-party
committee to the maximum extent, the Company carefully discussed and examined conditions of the Transaction
from the viewpoints of whether it is possible to improve the corporate value of the Company through the
Transaction, whether the Tender Offer Price and any other conditions in the Transaction are appropriate, etc.
As stated in "b. Background Leading to the Decision to Implement the Tender Offer, Purpose and Decision-Making
Process of the Tender Offer, and Management Policy after the Tender Offer " above, at the stage of further
strengthening the growth strategy mainly supported by NTT Group CRE, the Company believes that promoting
business as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Offerors will contribute to the increased corporate value over the mid-
to long-term of the Company without the short-term risk of profit deterioration. Specifically, in case that the
Transaction is executed, the Company believes that the following synergies can be realized by strengthening
collaboration with the NTT Group.
(a) Increase of Opportunities to Participate in NTT Group’s Assets Utilization Business through the Urban
Solutions Business
Although the Company is proceeding with acquisition of land for business centering on the metropolitan area,
the price of land for business has remained high in the large metropolitan areas in recent years and the
competition among business operators has become severer. The Company recognizes that it is not always
easy to acquire land for business even in local cities through participation in central urban redevelopment
projects, etc. The NTT Group owns many assets not only in the metropolitan area but also in local cities and
if the Company participates in the Urban Solutions Business, the sharing of asset information owned by the
NTT Group will proceed and the Company will be more likely to obtain such asset information, the Company
believes that the Company will be able to have opportunities to acquire land for business and to expand
Company’s revenue by increasing opportunities to participate in NTT Group's assets utilization business.
(b) Strengthening New Growth Fields by Using NTT Group's Strengths
While each real estate developer company is trying to strengthen its growth field by developing new products
and services that increase added value such as environmental performance and improvement of convenience
and by expanding business area into the overseas markets etc., due to concern for long-term demand in the
domestic real estate market on the background of the declining birthrate and aging population and the decrease
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in the labor force population, etc., the Company believes that efforts for these growth field are an important
issue. The Company believes that the Company’s efforts to the Urban Solutions Business will be able to lead
to the development of new real estate services that combine the real estates owned by the NTT Group and the
strengths of each company such as ICT, energy efficiency improvement and environmental technology. In
addition, the NTT Group has a global business foundation including providing ICT services around the world,
and supports many Japanese companies’ overseas expansion by ICT. The Company believes that the
Company is able to strengthen efforts in developed countries markets of the United States, Europe, and
Australia, where the Company has been striving to achieve stable growth and portfolio diversification so far, as
well as to secure access to the growing market such as Southeast Asia, by further strengthening collaboration
with the NTT Group.
(c) Effective Utilization of Management Resources through Cooperation with the NTT Group Companies of
which Business Fields are Close to the Company’s Business Field.
According to NTT, after the Transaction, NTT will strengthen the cooperation between the Company which
operates development and management business of real estate, etc. and NTT FACILITIES which operates
building and energy business that supports NTT Group's ICT foundation, actively utilize resources related to
building, energy, etc., and expand business. NTT FACILITIES has advanced construction technology that
follows the flow of historical Teishin building (telecommunication building) and is expanding various services
that developed facility engineering and energy efficiency technology cultivated through the operation of
communication facilities such as telephone stations, etc. NTT FACILITIES currently provides not only the
NTT Group’s ICT foundation, but also a wide range of advanced services of building and energy for the
administrative and local governments, etc., universities, companies, etc. across the country, and is aiming for
further expansion of these businesses. In addition, because NTT Group’s ICT foundation is located all over
Japan, NTT FACILITIES assigns specialized talented personnel with skills related to building, energy, etc. in
the core city of the whole country.
The Company believes that the following business synergies can be expected by strengthening cooperation
between the Company and NTT FACILITIES in the management system that NTT intends to consider
establishing after the Transaction.
The Company will be able to strengthen its business base in the local cities by collaborating with NTT
FACILITIES which has customer base of administrative and local governments, etc. and a business
location base in the core cities throughout the country.
By effectively utilizing human resources with advanced expertise skills such as first-class architect,
electrical chief engineer and qualified facility manager owned by NTT FACILITIES, the Company
will be able to strengthen and expand growth areas including the Urban Solutions Business and
existing businesses.
Since the Company and NTT FACILITIES operate similar businesses such as property management,
building management, facility management in their business fields, the Company will be able to
increase business efficiency by effectively utilizing both companies’ resources of these businesses.
The Company will be able to strengthen efforts for PPP (Note 4) and PFI (See Note 5) and create
business opportunities through effective utilization of know-how of businesses for administrative and
local governments that NTT FACILITIES has a track record, and by establishing a sales system that
the Company and NTT FACILITIES cooperates.
It is expected that the expansion of earning base by mutual business collaboration on NTT
FACILITIES and the Company’s customer base, such as CRE strategy support for NTT FACILITIES’
customer base of company and university, etc., and provision of solutions to tenants of buildings
owned by the Company by NTT FACILITIES.
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(d) Acceleration of the Company’s Growth by Unifying and Accelerating Decision-making in Group
Management Strategy
As a comprehensive real estate developer in the NTT Group, the Company has utilized various unused lands
owned by the NTT Group so far. According to NTT, NTT believes that the Urban Solutions Business which
is the purpose of implementation of the Transaction, includes the utilization of real estate such as the telephone
offices which are the information communication bases of core cities nationwide owned by the NTT Group
other than the Company Group.
The Company believes that when utilizing the telephone office etc., there is problem specific to such business,
such as the occurrence of the upfront investment and the need to promptly implement asset consolidation, thus,
in order to solve these problems, it is necessary to establish a framework to strengthen collaboration with the
NTT Group more than ever.
In order to steadily promote the NTT Group CRE which is the pillar of our growth strategy, the Company
believes that it is necessary to realize the unification and acceleration of decision-making in NTT Group's
management strategy in the management structure that is considered to be constructed after the Transaction,
which will allow the development of the Urban Solutions Business that the NTT Group is aiming for and will
contribute to increasing the corporate value over the mid- to long-term of the NTT Group including the
Company.
(Note 4) Scheme in which the public sector and the private sector cooperate to provide public services
(Note 5) Scheme which provides efficient and effective public services by utilizing private funds and
know-how for the design, construction, maintenance and management of public facilities, etc., and
by providing public services led by a private sector.
Moreover, the Company, as a listed company, has taken into consideration the trend of the market share price and
has aimed to secure the interests of each fiscal year as one of the management objectives so far. Accordingly,
when promoting the Urban Solutions Business, it was difficult to promptly and smoothly promote the utilization of
telephone offices nationwide because there is concern that investment and cost burden not directly linked to the
maximization of the Company’s profits occurs in the short term due to its scale, as well as, there is concern about
conflicts of interest between NTT and minority shareholders of the Company depending on the cost burden ratio
with the NTT group. After the Transaction, the Company believes that the Company will be able to invest quickly
and smoothly as necessary from the viewpoint of medium- to long-term growth with avoiding the impact on
minority shareholders of the Company due to such short-term performance deterioration and conflicts of interest
between NTT and minority shareholders of the Company, by becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the Offerors,
and to contribute to the vitality creation throughout Japan by the urban solutions from a long-term perspective.
Based on the above, the Company has concluded that becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the Offerors through
the Transaction is the best option to improve the corporate value of the Company.
Further, in light of the following facts, the Company determined that the Tender Offer would provide the
shareholders of the Company with a reasonable opportunity to sell the Company Shares: (a) the Tender Offer Price
exceeds the range of the calculation results based of the average market price method and the comparable company
method and exceeds the midpoint of the range of the calculation result based on the discounted cash flow method
(“DCF Method”) among the calculation results for the share value of the Company Shares by Nomura Securities set
out in “b. Overview of Calculation” in “(3) Matters Regarding Calculation” below and the Company obtained the
opinion that the Tender Offer Price is reasonable from a financial point of view to shareholders of the Company
excluding NTT (fairness opinion) from Nomura Securities; (b) the Tender Offer Price is a price with a 28.64%
premium (rounded off at the second decimal place; this also applies to figures for premiums below) to the closing
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price of JPY 1,306 of the Company Shares on the First Section of the TSE on October 12, 2018, which is the
business day preceding the date of the public announcement of the Tender Offer, a 31.56% premium to the simple
average closing prices of JPY 1,277 (rounded off decimal places; the same hereinafter regarding simple average
closing prices) for the most recent month up to October 12, 2018, a 39.19% premium to the simple average closing
prices of JPY 1,207 for the most recent three months up to October 12, 2018 and a 39.77% premium to the simple
average closing prices of JPY 1,202 for the most recent six months up to October 12, 2018, respectively and the
Tender Offer Price is considered to be the price with a reasonable premium in comparison with the premium level in
other tender offer case for the purpose of making a target company a wholly owned subsidiary; (c) the measures to
resolve conflicts of interest set out in “(6) Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Such as Measures to
Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Price and Measures to Avoid Conflicts of Interest” below have been taken and
the consideration has been given to the interests of minority shareholders; (d) the Tender Offer Price was offered as
a result of discussion and negotiation between the Company and NTT equivalent to those under an arm’s length
transaction, with measures to resolve conflicts of interest as stated above, more specifically, with sincere and
continued discussions and negotiations conducted based on the calculation results of the Company Shares received
from Nomura Securities and discussions with the third-party committee.
Based on the reasons stated above, the Company resolved at the meeting of the board of directors held today to
express an opinion supporting the Tender Offer and to recommend the shareholders of the Company to tender in the
Tender Offer.
(3) Matters Regarding Calculation
a. Names of the Valuation Agent and the Relationship between the Company and NTT, the wholly-owning parent
company of the Offeror
For the purpose of expressing its opinion regarding the Tender Offer, the Company, in order to ensure the fairness in
the decision-making process of the Company regarding the Tender Offer Price, the Company requested Nomura
Securities, a third-party valuation agent that is independent from the Offerors and the Company, to calculate the
value of the Company Shares and to express an opinion that the Tender Offer Price is reasonable from a financial
point of view to shareholders of the Company excluding NTT (fairness opinion).
Nomura Securities, a third-party valuation agent, is not a related party of the Offerors or the Company, and has no
material interest in the Tender Offer.
b. Overview of Calculation
Nomura Securities, based on its assessment of valuation methods in the Tender Offer, calculated the value of the
Company Shares using (i) the average market price method, since the Company Shares are listed on the First
Section of the TSE; (ii) the comparable company method, since there are listed companies for which comparison to
the Company is possible, and, accordingly, it is possible to estimate the value of the Company Shares by comparing
the Company with those similar companies; and (iii) the DCF Method, in order to reflect the performance of the
Company’s future business activities on the valuation. The Company obtained the Company Share Valuation
Report from Nomura Securities on October 12, 2018. Further, the Company obtained the opinion that the Tender
Offer Price is reasonable from a financial point of view to shareholders of the Company excluding NTT (fairness
opinion) from Nomura Securities.
According to Nomura Securities, the methods adopted for the calculation of the value of the Company Shares and
the ranges of the per share values of the Company Shares, as calculated under each of the relevant methods, are as
follows:
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Average market price method: JPY 1,202– JPY 1,319
Comparable company method: JPY 698– JPY 1,393
DCF Method: JPY 945– JPY 1,970
In the average market price method, the calculation base date was set as of October 12, 2018, and the price range of
per share value of the Company Shares was calculated to be JPY 1,202 to JPY 1,319 based on the closing price of
JPY 1,306 of the Company Shares on the First Section of the TSE on the base date, the simple average closing
prices of JPY 1,319 for the most recent five business days, the simple average closing prices of JPY 1,277 for the
most recent month, the simple average closing price of JPY 1,207 for the most recent three months and the simple
average closing price of JPY 1,202 for the most recent six months.
In the comparable company method, Nomura Securities selected Nomura Real Estate Holdings, Inc., Mitsui
Fudosan Co., Ltd, Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd, Sumitomo Realty & Development Co., Ltd., Tokyo Tatemono Co.,
Ltd., Heiwa Real Estate Co., LTD. and Daibiru Corporation as comparable companies, and calculated the value of
the Company Shares, applying multiples of the earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization with
respect to the corporate value of those companies (the “EBITDA Multiples”) and multiples of the market net value
(market net value taking into account tax on unrealized profits) with respect to the market capitalization of those
companies (“Adjusted Book Value Net Asset Multiples”). As a result, the price range of per share value of the
Company Shares was calculated to be JPY 698 to JPY 1,393.
In the DCF Method, Nomura Securities, after having considered the reasonable assumptions, including the profit
forecast and investment projects based on the business plans prepared by the Company from the fiscal year ending
March 31, 2019, to the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023, evaluated the corporate value by discounting the free
cash flows that the Company is expected to generate in the future in and after the fiscal year ending March 31, 2019,
to the present value by using a certain discount rate in proportion to the business risks. For the discount rate under
the said analysis, 2.50% to 3.00% was applied, and, in calculating the eternal values, the exit multiples method and
the perpetuity growth method were used, and the EBITDA Multiple was set at 19.0x to 21.0 x and the perpetuity
growth rate was set at 0.30% to 0.50%. As a result, the price range of per share value of the Company Shares was
calculated to be JPY 945 to JPY 1,970.
The financial forecasts on the basis of the Company’s business plan, based on which Nomura Securities calculated
in the DCF Method, are as follows. The following financial forecasts do not include any fiscal year that are
expected significant increase or decrease in profit. Further, the relevant financial forecasts were not prepared
based on the assumption that the Transaction would be implemented.
(Unit: JPY million)
fiscal year
ending March
2019
fiscal year
ending March
2020
fiscal year
ending March
2021
fiscal year
ending March
2022
fiscal year
ending March
2023
Operating Revenue 168,240 169,638 158,064 159,041 169,275
Operating Income 30,000 30,000 32,005 32,850 34,911
EBITDA 48,260 50,228 53,509 54,614 57,256
Free Cash Flow ▲4,661 ▲4,164 ▲8,061 ▲5,064 11,107
(Note 1) Although the Company Group has decided to voluntarily adopt International Financial Reporting
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Standards (IFRS) from the fiscal year ending March 2019, the financial forecasts above were prepared
based on J GAAP.
(Note 2) As for the main fluctuation factors of free cash flow, it is anticipated that free cash flow will decrease
due to increasing in acquisition cost of rental assets in the fiscal year ending March 2019 to March 2022.
In fiscal year ending March 2023, it is anticipated that free cash flow will increase due to decreasing in
acquisition cost of rental assets.
(4) Likelihood of Delisting and Reasons for that Delisting
Although the Company Shares are listed on the First Section of the TSE as of this date, the Offeror has not set a
maximum number of Share Certificates, Etc. to be purchased in the Tender Offer, so the Company Shares might be
delisted through prescribed procedures in accordance with delisting criteria prescribed by the TSE depending on the
result of the Tender Offer. Even if the Company Shares do not fall under those criteria upon the completion of the
Tender Offer, as explained in “(5) Policy of Restructuring, Etc. after the Tender Offer (Matters Concerning So-Called
Two-Step Acquisition)” below, if the Squeeze-out Procedures are implemented, the Company Shares will be delisted
through prescribed procedures in accordance with the delisting criteria of the TSE. If the Company Shares are
delisted, the Company Shares may not be traded on the TSE.
(5) Policy of Restructuring, Etc. after the Tender Offer (Matters Concerning So-Called Two-Step Acquisition)
As mentioned in “a. Overview of the Tender Offer” in “(2) Grounds and Reasons for the Opinion Regarding the
Tender Offer” above, the Offeror has a policy to make the Company a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Offeror, and if
the Offeror is not able to acquire all of the issued shares of the Company through the Tender Offer (excluding the
Company Shares Held by the Parent Company of the Offeror and the Company’s treasury shares owned by the
Company), the Offeror plans on conducting Squeeze-out Procedures so that it will acquire all of the issued shares of
the Company by any of the following methods after the completion of the Tender Offer.
As stated in “a. Overview of the Tender Offer” in “(2) Grounds and Reasons for the Opinion Regarding the Tender
Offer” above, the Offeror plans on acquiring the Company Shares Held by the Parent Company of the Offeror
through the Contribution In Kind after the completion of the settlement of the Tender Offer and before the completion
of the Squeeze-out Procedures, but details such as the transaction terms have not been determined at this point.
a. Demand for Share Cash-Out
If the Offeror and NTT own in total 90% or more of the voting rights of all shareholders of the Company as a result
of the completion of the Tender Offer, as mentioned above, the Offeror will, promptly after the completion of the
settlement of the Tender Offer, acquire the Company Shares Held by the Parent Company of the Offeror through the
Contribution In Kind, and then make a demand to all of the shareholders of the Company (excluding the Offeror
and the Company) that did not tender shares in the Tender Offer (the “Cash-Out Shareholders”) to sell all of the
Company Shares they hold (the “Share Cash-Out Demand”) under the provisions of Article 179, paragraph (1) of
the Companies Act (Act No. 86 of 2005, as amended, hereinafter the same). Cash equal to the amount of the
Tender Offer Price is to be delivered to the Cash-Out Shareholders in the Share Cash-Out Demand as consideration
for each share of the Company Shares. In that case, the Offeror will notify the Company to that effect and request
approval from the Company for the Share Cash-Out Demand. If the Company approves that Share Cash-Out
Demand by a resolution of a meeting of its board of directors, the Offeror will acquire all of the issued shares of the
Company held by the Cash-Out Shareholders as of the acquisition date in the Share Cash-Out Demand without
requiring any individual approval of a Cash-Out Shareholder in accordance with procedures prescribed in relevant
laws and regulations. The Offeror is to deliver cash equal to the Tender Offer Price for each share of the Company
Shares to each Cash-Out Shareholder as consideration for the Company Shares held by the Cash-Out Shareholders.
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If the Company receives a notice of the Share Cash-Out Demand from the Offeror setting out matters stipulated in
each item of Article 179-2, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act, the Company will approve the Share Cash-Out
Demand by the Offeror at a meeting of the board of directors of the Company.
It is provided in the Companies Act as a provision to protect the rights of minority shareholders in relation to the
above procedures that a Cash-Out Shareholder may, in accordance with Article 179-8 of the Companies Act and the
provisions of other relevant laws and regulations, file a petition to the court for a determination of the purchase price
of the Company Shares it owns. If such a petition is filed, the purchase price will be ultimately determined by the
court.
b. Share Consolidation
If the Offeror and NTT do not own in total 90% or more of the voting rights of all shareholders of the Company in
spite of the completion of the Tender Offer, the Offeror will make a request to the Company promptly after the
completion of the settlement of the Tender Offer to convene an extraordinary shareholders meeting of the Company
(the “Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting”) and to propose as agenda items at the Extraordinary Shareholders
Meeting a consolidation of the Company Shares (the “Share Consolidation”) and a partial amendment to its
Articles of Incorporation to abolish the provisions on share units as a condition to the Share Consolidation taking
effect, and the Offeror and (if NTT holds shares of the Company as of the record date pertaining to the
Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting) NTT are to approve those proposals at the Extraordinary Shareholders
Meeting. If the proposal for the Share Consolidation is approved at the Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting, on
the day on which the Share Consolidation takes effect, each shareholder of the Company will own the Company
Shares in a number that corresponds to the ratio of the Share Consolidation approved at the Extraordinary
Shareholders Meeting. The date on which that Share Consolidation takes effect is to be set after the Contribution
In Kind.
If a fraction less than one share arises in the number of shares as a result of the Share Consolidation, cash obtained
from selling to the Company or the Offeror the Company Shares in a number that is equal to the total number of
those fractions (if there is a fraction less than one share in that total number, that fraction is to be rounded down,
hereinafter the same) is to be delivered to the shareholders of the Company in accordance with the procedures
prescribed in Article 235 of the Companies Act and other relevant laws and regulations. With respect to the sale
price of the Company Shares equivalent to the total of those fractions, a petition will be filed to a court for
permission to make a sale by private contract after calculating the amount of cash to be delivered to each
shareholder of the Company (excluding the Offeror and the Company) that did not tender shares in the Tender Offer
as a result of that sale so that the amount of cash to be delivered is the same as the price obtained by multiplying the
Tender Offer Price by the number of Company Shares owned by each of those shareholders. Further, although the
ratio of the consolidation of the Company Shares has not been determined as of today, a decision is to be made so
that the number of Company Shares owned by the shareholders of the Company (excluding the Offeror and the
Company) that did not tender shares in the Tender Offer will be a fraction less than one share so that the Offeror
owns all of the Company Shares (excluding the Company’s treasury shares owned by the Company).
It is provided in the Companies Act as a provision to protect the rights of minority shareholders in relation to the
above procedures that if a fraction less than one share arises as a result of the Share Consolidation, any shareholder
of the Company may, in accordance with Article 182-4 and Article 182-5 of the Companies Act and the provisions
of other relevant laws and regulations, make a demand to the Company to purchase at a fair price all of the shares
owned by that shareholder that will become a fraction less than one share and file a petition to the court for a
determination of the price of the Company Shares. As explained above, given that the number of the Company
Shares owned by the shareholders of the Company (excluding the Offeror and the Company) that did not tender
shares in the Tender Offer will become a fraction less than one share in the Share Consolidation, the shareholders of
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the Company that oppose the Share Consolidation will be able to file the above petition. If such a petition is filed,
the purchase price will be ultimately determined by the court.
The procedures in (i) and (ii) above might change to another method that has essentially the same effect depending
on circumstances such as any revision, enforcement, or interpretation by authorities of relevant laws and regulations
and factors such as the Ownership Ratio of the Share Certificates, Etc. of the Offeror and NTT after the Tender
Offer and the ownership status of the Company Shares by shareholders other than the Offeror. However, even in
that case, the method of ultimately delivering cash to the shareholders of the Company (excluding the Offeror and
the Company) that have not Tendered Share Certificates, Etc. in the Tender Offer will be used, and the amount of
cash to be delivered to each of those shareholders in that case is to be calculated so that it is equal to the price
obtained by multiplying the Tender Offer Price by the number of the Company Shares owned by that shareholder.
Matters such as the specific procedures in the above case and the timing of the implementation of those procedures
are to be publicly announced by the Company once they have been determined following discussions between the
Company and the Offeror.
The Tender Offer is not intended to solicit the shareholders of the Company to approve the proposals at the
Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting. Each shareholder should consult with a certified public tax accountant and
other experts at its own responsibility on the handling of tax matters in relation to tendering shares in the Tender
Offer and the above procedures.
(6) Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Such as Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer
Price and Measures to Avoid Conflicts of Interest
In light of the fact that the Company is a consolidated subsidiary of NTT as of today, which is the wholly-owning
parent company of the Offeror, and the Transaction, which includes an expression of opinion regarding the Tender
Offer, constitutes an important transaction with a controlling shareholder, and the fact that the Offerors have an
inherent conflict of interests with the shareholders of the Company other than NTT, the Offerors and the Company
have taken the following measures to ensure fairness in the Tender Offer and avoid any conflict of interest. The
following measures that have been taken by the Offerors in the following statements are based on the explanations
from the Offerors.
Although the Offeror has not set a minimum number of Share Certificates, Etc. to be purchased of the so-called
“majority of minority” in the Tender Offer, the Offeror and the Company believes that because the measures set out in
a. through f. below have been taken by the Offerors and the Company, the interests of the minority shareholders of the
Company have been sufficiently considered.
a. Obtaining a Share Valuation Report from an Independent Third-Party Valuation Agent by NTT
NTT, the wholly-owning parent company of the Offeror, in the course of determining the Tender Offer Price,
requested Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities, which is NTT’s financial advisor, to analyze the share value
of the Company as a third-party valuation agent that is independent from the Offerors and the Company. Further,
Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities is not a related party of the Offerors or the Company and does not have
any material interest in the Tender Offer.
Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities has, after considering the calculation method in the Tender Offer,
analyzed the share value of the Company using a market share price analysis, a comparable companies analysis, and
a discounted cash flow analysis (“DCF Analysis”), and NTT obtained a valuation report (the “NTT Valuation
Report”) from Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities on October 12, 2018. NTT has not obtained a fairness
opinion on the Tender Offer Price from Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities.
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The ranges of the share value per share of the Company Shares analyzed using each of the above methods are as
follows.
Market share price analysis: JPY 1,202 – JPY 1,306
Comparable companies analysis: JPY 531 – JPY 1,681
DCF Analysis: JPY 1,288 – JPY 1,865
The market share price analysis, in which the base date is October 12, 2018, resulted in a per share value of the
Company Shares ranging from JPY 1,202 to JPY 1,306 based on the closing price of JPY 1,306 of the Company
Shares on the First Section of the TSE on the base date, the simple average closing price of JPY 1,277 for the most
recent month (September 13, 2018 to October 12, 2018), the simple average closing price of JPY 1,207 for the most
recent three months (July 13, 2018 to October 12, 2018), and the simple average closing price of JPY 1,202 for the
most recent six months (April 13, 2018 to October 12, 2018).
The comparable companies analysis resulted in a per share value of the Company Shares ranging from JPY 531 to
JPY 1,681 after evaluating the share value of the Company by selecting of listed companies engaged in relatively
similar businesses to those of the Company and using the EBITDA Multiples, multiples of the net profit for the
period with respect to the market capitalization of those companies, and Adjusted Book Value Net Asset Multiples.
The DCF Analysis resulted in a per share value of the Company Shares ranging from JPY 1,288 to JPY 1,865 after
evaluating the corporate value and share value by discounting the free cash flow the Company is expected to
generate in the future to the present value at a certain discount rate based on earnings forecasts of the Company
from the fiscal year ending March 2019 taking into consideration various factors such as the Company’s business
plan, the latest business performance, and publicly available information.
(Note) In calculating the share value of the shares of the Company, Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities
has, in principle, used such things as information provided to it by the Offerors and the Company and
publicly available information as presented, and assumed that those materials, information and the like
are entirely accurate and complete. It has not made an independent study of the accuracy or
completeness thereof. Also, Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities has not conducted an
independent evaluation or assessment and has not requested an appraisal or assessment from a
third-party organization in connection with any assets or liabilities (including off-balance-sheet assets
and liabilities and other contingent liabilities) of any affiliate of the Company. In addition, Mitsubishi
UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities assumed that information regarding the financial forecasts of the
Company have been reasonably prepared based on the best forecasts and judgements of the
management of the Company at that time. Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities analyzed
information regarding the financial forecasts of the Company assuming that it has been prepared based
on the Japanese accounting standard, while the Company Group has announced that it will apply IFRS
from the fiscal year ending March 2019 voluntarily. The calculation by Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley
Securities reflects the above information up to October 12, 2018.
NTT, which is the wholly-owning parent company of the Offeror, ultimately determined by resolution of a meeting
of its board of directors today that the Tender Offer Price is a per share value of JPY 1,680 in light of the results of
discussions and negotiations with the Company by comprehensively considering factors such as the result of the
calculation in the NTT Valuation Report obtained from Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities, whether the
Tender Offer is approved by the board of directors of the Company, examples of premiums that have been provided
upon determination of the tender offer price in past tender offers by persons other than an issuer which are similar to
the Tender Offer (tender offer by a parent company where its listed subsidiary was to become a wholly-owned
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subsidiary of the parent company), trends in the market price of the Company Shares, the results of due diligence of
the Company conducted from late July to late August 2018, and the prospect of shares being tendered in the Tender
Offer.
The per share value of JPY 1,680, which is the Tender Offer Price, is an amount that was calculated by adding a
premium of 28.64% to the closing price of the Company Shares of JPY 1,306 on the First Section of the TSE on
October 12, 2018, which is the business day immediately preceding the day on which the Tender Offer is publicly
announced by the Offeror, a premium of 31.56% on the simple average closing price of JPY 1,277 for the most
recent month (September 13, 2018 to October 12, 2018), a premium of 39.19% on the simple average closing price
of JPY 1,207 for the most recent three months (July 13, 2018 to October 12, 2018), and a premium of 39.77% on
the simple average closing price of JPY 1,202 for the most recent six months (April 13, 2018 to October 12, 2018).
b. Obtaining a Share Valuation Report and a Fairness Report from an Independent Third-Party Valuation Agent by the
Company
The Company, in order to ensure the fairness in the decision-making process of the Company regarding the Tender
Offer Price, the Company requested Nomura Securities, a third-party valuation agent that is independent from the
Offerors and the Company, to calculate the value of the Company Shares and to express an opinion that the Tender
Offer Price is reasonable from a financial point of view to shareholders of the Company excluding NTT (fairness
opinion) and obtained the Company Share Valuation Report and the fairness opinion from Nomura Securities on
October 12, 2018.
For overview of the Company Share Valuation Report and the fairness opinion, see “b. Overview of Calculation” in
“(3) Matters Regarding Calculation” above.
c. Advice from an Independent Law Office
The Company, in order to ensure the transparency and rationality in the decision-making process of the board of
directors of the Company regarding the Transaction including the Tender Offer, selected TMI Associates as its legal
advisor that is independent from the Offerors and the Company and received legal advice on the decision-making
method and process and other issues regarding the Transaction including the Tender Offer. TMI Associates is not
a related party of the Offerors or the Company, and has no material interest in the Tender Offer.
d. Establishment of a Third-Party Committee that is Independent from the Company and the Offerors
In light of the fact that the Company is a consolidated subsidiary of NTT, the wholly-owning parent company of the
Offeror, and the Transaction including expressing an opinion regarding the Tender Offer falls under “important
transactions, etc. with controlling shareholders”, the Company established a third-party committee on August 16,
2018, in order to carefully make decisions regarding the Transaction, to eliminate arbitrariness and concern of
conflicts of interest and to ensure the fairness of the decision-making process regarding the Transaction. The
third-party committee consists of members who is independent from the Offerors and the Company including
outside experts: Akira Komatsu (outside and independent director of the Company), Shiro Tanikawa (outside and
independent director of the Company), Eiji Masuda (attorney at Masuda & Partners law office) and Yuji Kato (a
certified public accountant and representative director of Eichi Financial Advisory Inc.).
The Company consulted the third-party committee regarding (i) the Reasonableness of the purpose of the
Transaction, (ii) the fairness of the terms of the Transaction including the Tender Offer Price, (iii) the sufficiency of
consideration to be given to minority shareholders of the Company through the fair process regarding the
Transaction, and (iv) whether the Transaction is disadvantageous to the minority shareholders of the Company
based on (i) through (iii) and other factors (collectively, the “Reference Matters”).
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The third-party committee convened a total of 7 times between August 16, 2018 and October 9, 2018, and carefully
discussed and examined the Reference Matters. Specifically, the third-party committee examined required
documents including documents received from the Company and NTT, interviewed officers and employees of the
Company, Nomura Securities, TMI associates, officers and employees of NTT, Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley
Securities and Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, received explanations on details, backgrounds, circumstances,
significance and purposes of the Transaction, details, conditions and future prospectus of the Company’s business,
management issues of the Company, detail of business plan of the Company, impact of the Transaction for the
Company and measures to ensure fairness and to avoid conflicts of interest taken by the Company and Offerors and
held Q&A sessions with them.
The third-party committee also received an explanation from Nomura Securities regarding the process and the
results of the calculation of the share value of the Company Shares, an explanation from TMI Associates on the
decision-making methods and process of the Company’s board of directors and other issues regarding the
decision-making and held Q&A sessions with them.
Under the circumstances above, as a result of discussion with Nomura Securities and TMI Associates and having
carefully discussed and examined the Reference Matters, the third-party committee submitted a report to the board
of directors of the Company on October 12, 2018 in agreement of all the members on certain conditions such as that
information received by the third-party committee are true and accurate, the Transaction including the Tender Offer
is lawful and the matters concerning the procedure regarding the Transaction which was explained as being
scheduled will be implemented as explained. The overview of the Report is as follows.
(a) Reasonableness of Purpose of Transaction
The measures specifically listed by the Offerors can be recognized to enable the Company to secure the
opportunity to acquire land for business, to strengthen its revenue base by promoting high value-added
development without regard to the existing business framework and to contribute promotion of the NTT
Group CRE. Therefore, it can be said that those measures suit their purpose regarding management issues
of the Company. In addition, the Transaction can be recognized to have a possibility of creating business
synergies with the NTT Group involves, which is not easy for the Company to realize alone without the
Transaction, such as creation of business opportunities by securing the opportunity to acquire land for
business owned by the NTT Group and expansion of the business area by actively utilizing the resources
related to buildings and energy owned by NTT FACILITIES. Based on the above, it can be said that the
Transaction contributes to the solution of management issues of the Company.
Between NTT and the Company, there is no discrepancy in the recognition regarding the importance and
various merits of strengthening group alliance more than ever by making the Company a wholly-owned
subsidiary of the Offeror and centralizing and streamlining decision making in the group management
strategy, and the content of their recognition is considered generally reasonable. Therefore, it can be
recognized that there is the necessity to make the Company a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Offeror in
order to solve management issues of the Company more effectively. In addition, in light of the fact that,
due to the nature of disadvantages arising from the Company becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of the
Offerors, there is a possibility to overcome the disadvantages by various corporate efforts future by the
Company, disadvantages arising from the Company becoming delisted is not considered to exceed merit
arising from the Company becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Offerors. Furthermore, regarding
the timing of the Transaction, the transaction can be recognized to be reasonable and suitable for the time,
and regarding the influence of the Transaction on employee of the Company, the Transaction can be
recognized to have positive significance for employees of the Company.
In the Transaction, it is scheduled to squeeze-out minority shareholders of the Company. In executing the
measures scheduled after the Transaction, upfront investments that do not necessarily lead to maximizing the
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profits of the Company in the short term might arise and it might be necessary to swiftly carry out measures
such as a concentration of the assets of the entire NTT Group, which would lead to a temporary cost increase,
and although those measures will become necessary from the perspective of the medium- to long-term
growth of the Company and the entire NTT Group including the Company Group, it will be difficult to
implement those measures while the Company is still a listed company because those measures may harm
the interests of existing shareholders of the Company in the short term. Based on the above and other
factors, in case where the Offerors do not make the Company a wholly-owned subsidiary, there is a
possibility that pursuit of short-term profits is prioritized rather than executing measures from the medium-
to long-term perspective and it may hinder the executing measures that will contribute to the solution of
management issues of the Company. In addition, in case where the Company executes those measures
without the Offerors making the Company a wholly-owned subsidiary, it may result that the minority
shareholders of the Company will bear the risk of stock price fluctuation arising from a decline in profits or
temporary deterioration of business results of the Company. Therefore, the Transaction has a significance
to increase the feasibility of executing measures scheduled after the Transaction and to prevent the minority
shareholders of the Company from burdening the risk of stock price fluctuation, in this respect, it can be
recognized that there is the necessity to make the Company a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Offerors and
the Transaction contributes to increasing the corporate value of the Company. In addition to the above, in
light of the fact that there are no factors to base any unfairness on the reason for executing the Transaction, in
relation to minority shareholders of the Company, the purpose of the Transaction can be recognized
legitimate.
As stated above, since the Transaction can be recognized to contribute to increasing the corporate value of
the Company and, in relation to minority shareholders of the Company, the purpose of the Transaction can
be recognized legitimate, it can be said that the purpose of the Transaction is reasonable.
(b) Fairness of the terms of the tender offer (including the Tender Offer Price) in the Transaction
The Tender Offer can be recognized to have adopted measures to ensure an objective status to secure the
adequacy of the tender offer price, such as establishing the purchasing period of 30 business days, which is a
relatively longer period than the minimum period of 20 business days that is established by the laws and
regulations. In addition, according to the calculation results of the Company’s share value by Nomura
Securities, the Tender Offer Price is recognized to be a price within the range of the calculation result by the
DCF Method (the perpetuity growth method and the exit multiples method), and exceeds the upper limit of
the calculation result by the average market price method and the comparable company method.
Furthermore, the Company can be recognized to have considered the reasonableness of the Tender Offer
Price from the perspective of placing importance on protecting the interests of the minority shareholders of
the Company and other matters, and engaged in negotiations with NTT, while taking into account the
opinion of Nomura Securities, and it can be recognized that a premium has been ensured for the Tender
Offer Price of the Transaction that compares favorably even when compared to the proportion of the
premiums that have been attached in recent similar tender offers (tender offers by a consolidated parent
company for the purpose of making its listed consolidated subsidiary a wholly-owned subsidiary disclosed
in the past 3 years). Therefore, it can be said that fairness has been ensured in the formation process of the
Tender Offer Price, and by taking into account that the Company obtained an opinion regarding the
reasonableness of the tender offer price (fairness opinion) from Nomura Securities, the reasonableness and
validity of The Tender Offer Price can be recognized. In addition, consideration of the same amount as the
Tender Offer Price will be delivered to shareholders of the Company who do not tender in the Tender Offer
upon the Share Cash-Out Demand or the Share Consolidation after the Tender Offer, and in light of such
effect being scheduled to be disclosed by the disclosure materials and the purchasing period being set for a
relatively longer period of time, nothing unfair can be seen in the terms of the Tender Offer besides the
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Tender Offer Price.
Based on the above, it is recognized that fairness is ensured in the terms of the Transaction (including the
Tender Offer Price), which includes the Tender Offer.
(c) Fairness of procedures in the Transaction
In light of (i) a disclosure that can be recognized to be sufficient in regards to the process leading up to the
execution of the Transaction, being scheduled to be made, (ii) the Share Cash-Out Demand or the Share
Consolidation being adopted for the Squeeze-out Procedures after the Tender Offer and the right to make a
demand to the Company to purchase at a fair price and the right to file a petition to the court for a
determination of the purchase price being entitled to shareholders of the Company, and (iii) the same price as
the Tender Offer Price becoming the standard for the consideration delivered upon the Share Cash-Out
Demand or the Share Consolidation, and that effect is scheduled to be disclosed by the disclosure materials,
it can be recognized that measures to ensure opportunities for shareholders of the Company to make
adequate determinations have been adopted. In addition, in light of (i) the third-party committee’s report
and result that are expected to be given serious consideration, (ii) a resolution by the approval of all of the
directors excluding Masahiro Kajiwara, who is a director with special interest (and the expression of an
opinion that there is no objection by all of the auditors excluding Takeshi Arimoto, who is concurrently a
corporate officer of the purchaser) being scheduled to be made at the board of directors meeting scheduled to
be held on October 15, 2018, (iii) independent advice regarding the decision-making process and
decision-making methods, etc. for the Transaction having been obtained from TMI Associates, and (iv) the
Company Share Valuation Report and an opinion regarding the reasonableness of the Tender Offer Price
(fairness opinion) having been obtained from Nomura Securities, which is a third-party valuation agent that
is independent, measures to eliminate arbitrariness can be recognized to have been used in the
decision-making process. Furthermore, the period for the Tender Offer (the “Tender Offer Period”) has
been set to be a relatively longer period, and even if competing offerors actually appear, since the fact that an
agreement or the like that restricts such competing offerors from making contact, etc. with the Company
cannot be recognized, measures to ensure objective conditions to secure the adequacy of the price are
recognized to have been taken.
Based on the above, it can be recognized that sufficient consideration has been given to the interests of
shareholders of the Company through fair procedures, since, in the Transaction, which includes the Tender
Offer, the Company’s arbitrariness can be recognized to have been sufficiently eliminated by adopting
various measures, and opportunities for adequate determinations have been ensured for shareholders of the
Company.
(d) Whether the Transaction is disadvantageous to the minority shareholders of the Company
In light of it being recognized that the purpose of the Transaction is reasonable and that sufficient
consideration can be recognized for the interests of shareholders of the Company through the ensuring of
fairness of the terms of the tender offer of the Transaction and fair procedures, as stated in (a) to (c) above,
the Transaction, which includes the Tender Offer, can be recognized to not be disadvantageous to the
minority shareholders of the Company.
e. Approval of all Directors who do not have an Interest in the Company and Opinion by all Corporate Auditors who
do not have an Interest that there is no Objection
At the meeting of the board of directors held today, all the directors other than Masahiro Kajiwara of 14 directors
(including 2 outside directors) of the Company participated in the deliberations and resolutions and the Company
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resolved unanimously by all the directors participated in the resolutions to express an opinion supporting the Tender
Offer and to recommend the shareholders of the Company to tender in the Tender Offer based on the grounds and
reasons set out in “c. Course of Decision-Making of the Company” in “(2) Grounds and Reasons for the Opinion
Regarding the Tender Offer” above.
Further, at the aforementioned meeting of the board of directors, 3 company auditors other than Takeshi Arimoto of
4 company auditors (including 3 outside company auditors) of the Company participated in deliberations, and all of
those company auditors stated that they had no objection to expressing an opinion supporting the Tender Offer and
recommending the shareholders of the Company to tender in the Tender Offer by the Company’s board of directors.
For avoiding a suspicion of conflicts of interest, Masahiro Kajiwara, who serves concurrently as an employee of
NTT, the wholly-owning parent company of the Offeror, did not participate in the deliberations and resolutions
regarding the Tender Offer at the aforementioned meeting of the board of directors, nor did he participate in
examination of the Transaction and discussions and negotiations with the Offerors on behalf of the Company.
Also, for avoiding a suspicion of conflicts of interest, Takeshi Arimoto, who serves concurrently as an employee of
NTT, the wholly-owning parent company of the Offeror, did not participate in the deliberations regarding the
Tender Offer at the aforementioned meeting of the board of directors.
f. Measures to Ensure an Opportunity to Purchase by Other Purchaser
While the statutory requirement of the tender offer period is 20 business days at minimum, the Offeror will set the
Tender Offer Period as 30 business days. By setting the Tender Offer Period relatively long, the Offeror intends to
ensure the fairness of the Tender Offer Price by providing the shareholders of the Company with an opportunity to
properly determine whether to tender their shares in the Tender Offer and also by providing an opportunity for a
third party other than the Offeror to purchase the Company Shares.
In addition, the Offerors and the Company have not entered into any agreement that would restrict competing
offerors from contacting the Company such as an agreement with a deal protection provision that prohibits the
Company from contacting competing offerors. In this way, the Offerors are giving consideration to securing
fairness in the Tender Offer by setting the above the Tender Offer Period and ensuring an opportunity for competing
offers.
4. Matters Regarding Material Agreements Regarding Tendering of Shares in the Tender Offer between the
Offeror and the Shareholders of the Company
The Offeror has confirmed that NTT, which is its wholly-owning parent company, does not plan on tendering the
Company Shares Held by the Parent Company of the Offeror in the Tender Offer.
As stated in “a. Overview of the Tender Offer” in “(2) Grounds and Reasons for the Opinion Regarding the Tender
Offer” in “3. Details and Grounds and Reasons for, the Opinion Regarding the Tender Offer” above, the Company
Shares Held by the Parent Company of the Offeror are to be acquired by the Offeror as consideration for the shares to
be issued by the Offeror as a result of the Contribution In Kind after the completion of the settlement of the Tender
Offer and before the completion of the Squeeze-out Procedures.
5. Matters Concerning Inappropriate Profits Received From the Offeror or its Specially Related Parties
Not applicable
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6. Policy for Responses Regarding Basic Policies on the Control of the Company
Not applicable
7. Inquiries to the Offeror
Not applicable
8. Request for Extension of the Tender Offer Period
Not applicable
9. Future Prospects
Please see “(ii) Management Policy after Completion of the Tender Offer” in “(2) Grounds and Reasons for the
Opinion Regarding the Tender Offer”, “(4) Likelihood of Delisting and Reasons for that Delisting” and “(5) Policy of
Restructuring, Etc. after the Tender Offer (Matters Concerning So-Called Two-Step Acquisition)” in “3. Details and
Grounds and Reasons for, the Opinion Regarding the Tender Offer” above.
10. Matters Concerning Transactions, etc. with the Controlling Shareholder
(1) Applicability of the Transactions, etc. with the Controlling Shareholder and Status of Compliance with the
Policy on Measures to Protect Minority Shareholders
Since NTT, the wholly-owning parent company of the Offeror, is the controlling shareholder (the parent company) of
the Company, the Transaction, which includes expressing an opinion regarding the Tender Offer, falls under
“transactions, etc. with controlling shareholders”. The status of compliance with the “I. 4. Policy on measures to
protect minority shareholders in conducting transactions with controlling shareholders” stated in the Corporate
Governance Report which was disclosed by the Company on June 22, 2018 is as follows.
The Company has taken measures to ensure fairness and to avoid conflicts of interest as stated “(6) Measures to
Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Such as Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Price and Measures to
Avoid Conflicts of Interest” in “3. Details and Grounds and Reasons for, the Opinion Regarding the Tender Offer”
above, and the Company believes that such measures are compliant with the contents of the Corporate Governance
Report.
(2) Matters Concerning Measures to Ensure the Fairness and Avoid Conflicts of Interest
Please see “(6) Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Such as Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender
Offer Price and Measures to Avoid Conflicts of Interest” in “3. Details and Grounds and Reasons for, the Opinion
Regarding the Tender Offer” above.
(3) Outline of Opinion that the Transaction is not Disadvantageous to the Minority Shareholders of the Company
obtained from Parties having no Conflicts of Interest with the Controlling Shareholder
The Company has obtained the Report, dated October 12, 2018, from the third-party committee and the Report
contains the opinions that the third-party committee believes the Transaction can be recognized to not be
disadvantageous to the minority shareholders of the Company. For details, see “d. Establishment of a Third-Party
Committee that is Independent from the Company and the Offerors” in “(6) Measures to Ensure Fairness in the
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Tender Offer Such as Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Price and Measures to Avoid Conflicts of
Interest” in “3. Details and Grounds and Reasons for, the Opinion Regarding the Tender Offer” above.
End
[Reference] “Notice regarding Commencement of the Tender Offer for Shares of NTT Urban Development Corporation
(Securities Code 8933)” as of today (Attachment)
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This press release is to announce the Tender Offer to the public and has not been prepared for the purpose of soliciting an
offer to sell shares. If shareholders wish to make an offer to sell their shares, they should first read the Tender Offer
Explanatory Statement for the Tender Offer and make their own independent decision. This press release does not
constitute, nor form part of, any offer to sell, solicitation of a sale of, or any solicitation of any offer to buy, any securities.
In addition, neither this press release (or any part of it) nor the fact of its distribution shall form the basis of or be relied on
in connection with any agreement thereof.
Although the Tender Offer will be conducted in accordance with the procedures and information disclosure standards
prescribed in the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, these procedures and standards may differ from the procedures
and information disclosure standards in the United States. In particular, Sections 13(e) and 14(d) of the U.S. Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (as amended, the “U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934”), and the rules prescribed thereunder do
not apply to the Tender Offer, and the Tender Offer does not conform to those procedures and standards. The financial
information contained in this press release may not necessarily be comparable to the financial statements of U.S.
companies. It may be difficult to enforce any right or claim arising under U.S. federal securities laws because the Offeror
and the Company are incorporated outside the United States and their directors are non-U.S. residents. Shareholders may
not be able to sue a company outside the United States and its directors in a non-U.S. court for violations of the U.S.
securities laws. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that shareholders will be able to compel a company outside the United
States or its subsidiaries and affiliates to subject themselves to the jurisdiction of a U.S. court.
Unless otherwise specified, all procedures relating to the Tender Offer shall be conducted entirely in Japanese. While
some or all of the documentation relating to the Tender Offer will be prepared in English, if there is any inconsistency
between the English documentation and the Japanese documentation, the Japanese documentation will prevail.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined in Section 27A of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and Section 21E of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Known or unknown risks, uncertainties and
other factors could cause actual results to differ substantially from the projections and other matters expressly or impliedly
set forth herein as “forward-looking statements.” None of the Offeror, the Company or any of their respective affiliates
assures that such express or implied projections set forth herein as "forward-looking statements" will eventually prove to be
correct. The "forward-looking statements" contained in this press release have been prepared based on the information
held by the Offeror and the Company as of the date hereof and, unless otherwise required under applicable laws and
regulations, none of the Offeror, the Company or any of their respective affiliates assumes any obligation to update or
revise this press release to reflect any future events or circumstances.
Some countries or regions may impose restrictions on the announcement, issue or distribution of this press release. In
such cases, please take note of such restrictions and comply with them. In countries or regions where the implementation
of the Tender Offer is illegal, even upon receiving this press release, such receipt shall not constitute a solicitation of an
offer to sell or an offer to buy shares relating to the Tender Offer and shall be deemed a distribution of materials for
informative purposes only.
Each of the financial advisors (including their affiliates) to the Offeror and the Company may, in its ordinary course of
business, purchase shares in the Company for its own account or for the account of its clients prior to the Tender Offer or
during the Tender Offer Period outside the Tender Offer in accordance with the requirements of Rule 14e-5(b) of the U.S.
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or take actions for such purchase to the extent permitted by financial instruments and
exchange related laws and regulations and other applicable laws and regulations of Japan. If any information concerning
such purchase is disclosed in Japan, the relevant financial advisor will disclose such information on its English website (or
by any other means of public disclosure).
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Assumption and Disclaimer of Fairness Opinion provided by Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. (“Nomura”) has assumed and relied upon the accuracy and completeness of all public
information reviewed by Nomura and all financial, legal, regulatory, tax, accounting and other information provided to
Nomura for the purpose of rendering the fairness opinion (“Fairness Opinion”). Nomura did not independently verify the
accuracy and completeness of such information, nor does Nomura assume any responsibility for doing so. Nomura has not
made any independent valuation, appraisal or assessment of any of the assets or liabilities (including derivatives,
off-balance sheet assets and liabilities, and other contingent liabilities) of NTT Urban Development Corporation (“NTT
Urban Development”) and its affiliates, including analyses or valuations of individual assets or liabilities, nor has Nomura
received any such valuation, appraisal, assessment or analysis from NTT Urban Development or a third party. Moreover,
Nomura has not made any request to a third party for such valuation, appraisal or assessment. With respect to the financial
projections and other forward-looking information concerning NTT Urban Development provided to Nomura, Nomura has
assumed that such information was reasonably prepared or reviewed by the management of NTT Urban Development
based on the best and bona fide estimates and judgments currently available, and that the future financial condition of NTT
Urban Development will be consistent with such projections. In preparing Fairness Opinion, Nomura has relied upon such
projections and other forward-looking information without independent verification. Nomura provides no assurance
whatsoever concerning the achievability of such financial projections. Nomura has assumed, without independent
verification and assumption of any responsibility thereof, that the Tender Offer (the “Proposed Transaction”) will be carried
out lawfully and validly in accordance with the terms set forth in this press release and that the Proposed Transaction will
not have any tax consequences different from the assumed consequences provided to Nomura. In addition, Nomura has
assumed, without independent verification and assumption of any responsibility thereof, that all governmental, regulatory
or other consents and approvals necessary for the consummation of the Proposed Transaction will be obtained without any
adverse effect on the contemplated benefits of the Proposed Transaction and that the Proposed Transaction will be
consummated in accordance with the terms of this press release, without waiver, modification or amendment of any
material term or agreement therein. Nomura was not asked to provide, and has not provided, any opinion on any
transaction other than the Proposed Transaction or on the relative merits of the Proposed Transaction as compared to any
other transaction. Nomura is under no obligation to NTT Urban Development or its Board of Directors to solicit indications
of interest from any third party in connection with the Proposed Transaction, nor did Nomura make any such solicitations.
Nomura has acted as the financial advisor to NTT Urban Development in connection with the Proposed Transaction and
has been involved in a part of the negotiation thereto. Nomura expects to receive from NTT Urban Development fees for
such services, including a fee contingent on submission of Fairness Opinion and the consummation of the Proposed
Transaction. In addition, Nomura expects to receive from NTT Urban Development reimbursement of certain expenses
incurred by Nomura and its affiliates. The waiver and indemnity clauses specified in the agreement between Nomura and
NTT Urban Development are applicable in connection with the rendering of Fairness Opinion. Nomura and its affiliates
may have provided in the past and may in the future provide investment banking, other financial instruments and financing
services or other similar services to NTT Urban Development, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (“NTT”), or
their affiliates, for which Nomura and its affiliates would expect to receive compensation. In the ordinary course of
business, Nomura and its affiliates may from time to time acquire, hold or sell certain equity, debt and other securities and
various types of financial instruments, including derivatives, of NTT Urban Development, NTT, or their affiliates for
Nomura’s own account or Nomura’s clients’ accounts.
Nomura’s opinion expressed in Fairness Opinion (“Nomura’s Opinion”) is provided for the information and assistance of
the Board of Directors of NTT Urban Development in connection with the offer price per share of common stock of NTT
Urban Development set forth in this press release (the “Tender Offer Price”). Nomura’s Opinion addresses only the fairness
of the Tender Offer Price, from a financial point of view, under the conditions and assumptions set out in Fairness Opinion;
Nomura was not asked to provide, and does not provide herein, any opinion on any of the premises or assumptions upon
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which the determination of the Tender Offer Price was based or the underlying business decision of NTT Urban
Development to proceed with the Proposed Transaction. Nomura’s Opinion does not constitute a recommendation as to
how any holder of the shares of NTT Urban Development common stock should vote or act on any matter relating to the
Proposed Transaction. Furthermore, Fairness Opinion does not purport to provide any opinion on the past, current and
future market prices of the common stock of NTT Urban Development. Nomura does not provide independent advice
related to legal, regulatory, tax, accounting matters in connection with the Prospected Transaction, and has relied upon the
judgment of NTT Urban Development or its third-party advisors concerning such matters.
Except as otherwise specially permitted under the agreement between NTT Urban Development and Nomura, Fairness
Opinion may not be disclosed to any other person or used for any purpose other than as originally intended. NTT Urban
Development may not disclose, refer to, transmit or use Fairness Opinion, in whole or in part, without Nomura’s prior
consent in writing.
Nomura’s Opinion is based on financial, economic, market, business and other conditions as they exist on the date of
Fairness Opinion, and relies upon information that Nomura has as of the date of Fairness Opinion. Although Nomura’s
Opinion may be affected by future changes in conditions, Nomura does not assume any responsibility to modify, change or
supplement this opinion in the future.
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October 15, 2018
For immediate release Company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation Representative Jun Sawada President and Chief Executive Officer (Securities Code 9432, First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange) Company NTT-SH Corporation Representative Katsumi Kuroda President and Representative Director
Notice regarding Commencement of the Tender Offer for Shares of NTT Urban Development Corporation (Securities Code 8933)
The Company hereby announces as follows that NTT-SH Corporation (the “Offeror”), which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (“NTT,” and the Offeror and NTT are collectively referred to as the “Offerors”) decided today to acquire the common shares of NTT Urban Development Corporation (the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. (the “TSE”), Securities Code: 8933) (the “Target,” and those shares, the “Target Shares”) through a tender offer (the “Tender Offer”) under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (Act No. 25 of 1948 (as amended); the “Act”).
1. Purpose of the Tender Offer
(1) Overview of the Tender Offer
The Offeror is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NTT, which holds all of the issued shares of the Offeror, and the Offeror is a stock company whose principal purpose is to acquire and own the Target Shares through the Tender Offer. As stated in “(ii) Management Policy after Completion of the Tender Offer” in “(2) Background Leading to the Decision to Implement the Tender Offer, Purpose and Decision-Making Process of the Tender Offer, and Management Policy after the Tender Offer” below, it is expected that the Offeror will be a holding company within the NTT Group (meaning, collectively, NTT and 922 consolidated subsidiaries, including the Target, and 118 affiliates of NTT (as of March 31, 2018), hereinafter the same) that promotes new urban solutions business (the “Urban Solutions Business Promotion Company”) in a manner unique to the NTT Group.
As of today, the Offeror does not own any Target Shares, but NTT, which is the wholly-owning parent company of the Offeror, owns 221,481,500 Target Shares (Ownership Ratio (Note) 67.30% (rounded to two decimal places, and hereinafter the same as long as no other treatment is provided for in the calculation of that ratio) (the “Target Shares Held by the Parent Company of the Offeror”) as of today, and the Target is treated as a consolidated subsidiary of NTT.
(Note) “Ownership Ratio” means the ratio of the shares owned to the number of shares (329,119,923 shares) obtained by deducting the number of the Target’s treasury shares owned by the Target as of June 30, 2018 as set out in the consolidated summary of accounts (IFRS) for the first quarter of the business period ending March 2019 submitted by the Target on August 3, 2018 (the “Target’s Summary of Accounts”) (77 shares) from the total number of issued shares as of June 30, 2018 set
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out in the 34th First Quarterly Securities Report submitted by the Target on August 6, 2018 (the “Target’s Quarterly Securities Report”) (329,120,000 shares).
As stated in “(i) Background Leading to the Decision to Implement the Tender Offer and Purpose and Decision-Making Process of the Tender Offer” in “(2) Background Leading to the Decision to Implement the Tender Offer, Purpose and Decision-Making Process of the Tender Offer, and Management Policy after the Tender Offer” below, NTT, which is the wholly-owning parent company of the Offeror, decided at its board of directors meeting held today to conduct a series of transactions for the purpose of making the Target a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Offerors by the Offeror acquiring all of the Target Shares (excluding the Target Shares Held by the Parent Company of the Offeror and the Target’s treasury shares owned by the Target), and the Offeror decided today to conduct the Tender Offer.
No maximum or minimum number of Share Certificates, Etc. to be purchased has been set in the Tender Offer, so the Offeror will purchase all of the Share Certificates, Etc. tendered in the Tender Offer (the “Tendered Share Certificates, Etc.”).
Given that the Offeror intends to make the Target a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Offeror, if the Offeror is not able to acquire all of the Target Shares (excluding the Target Shares Held by the Parent Company of the Offeror and the Target’s treasury shares owned by the Target) through the Tender Offer, the Offeror will implement procedures for the purpose of making the Offeror the sole shareholder of the Target (the “Squeeze-out Procedures”). For details, see “(5) Policy of Restructuring, Etc. after the Tender Offer (Matters Concerning So-Called Two-Step Acquisition)” below.
NTT plans on making a contribution in kind to the Offeror of all of the Target Shares Held by the Parent Company of the Offeror (the “Contribution In Kind,” and together with the Tender Offer and the Squeeze-out Procedures, collectively, the “Transaction”) as consideration for the shares issued by the Offeror after the completion of the settlement of the Tender Offer and before the completion of the Squeeze-out Procedures. Details of the conditions of the Contribution In Kind have not been determined at this point, but it is expected the number of shares to be issued by the Offeror with respect to one Target Share as consideration for the Contribution In Kind will not be on conditions that are more favorable for NTT than the purchase price pertaining to the Target Shares in the Tender Offer (the “Tender Offer Price”).
According to the “Announcement of Opinion to Support the Tender Offer for Our Shares By NTT-SH Corporation, which is a Subsidiary of Our Parent Company, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, and the Recommendation of the Tender thereto” announced by the Target today (the “Target Press Release”), at its board of directors meeting held today, the Target has expressed an opinion endorsing the Tender Offer and made a recommendation to the shareholders of the Target to tender their shares in the Tender Offer.
For details of the decision-making process of the Target, see the Target Press Release and “E) Approval of all Directors who do not have an Interest in the Target and Opinion by all Corporate Auditors who do not have an Interest that there is no Objection” in “(Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Such as Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Price and Measures to Avoid Conflicts of Interest)” in “(ii) Background of the Calculation” in “(4) Basis of Calculation of the Tender Offer Price” in “2 Overview of the Tender Offer” below.
(2) Background Leading to the Decision to Implement the Tender Offer, Purpose and Decision-Making
Process of the Tender Offer, and Management Policy after the Tender Offer
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(i) Background Leading to the Decision to Implement the Tender Offer and Purpose and Decision-Making Process of the Tender Offer
The Offeror is a stock company and all of its issued shares are owned by NTT. NTT, which is the wholly-owning parent company of the Offeror, was established under the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation Act (Act No. 85 of 1984) and was listed on the First Section of the TSE in February 1987. The contents of the principal businesses of the NTT Group are as follows.
i) Regional communications business: Providing intra-prefectural communications services in a domestic telecommunications business and businesses incidental thereto
ii) Long distance and international communications business: Inter-prefectural communications service, international communications business, and solutions business in a domestic telecommunications business and businesses related thereto
iii) Mobile communications business: Mobile telephone business and businesses related thereto
iv) Data communications businesses: Businesses such as network system services and system integration
v) Other businesses: Real estate business, financial business, construction and electric power business, system development business, advanced technology development business, etc.
It is expected that in the information and telecommunications market, to which NTT belongs, the
development of new technology such as the accelerated use of cloud services, the Internet of Things (IoT), big
data, and AI (Artificial Intelligence). Furthermore, with the entrance of new player, market competition that
surpasses existing business sector boundaries is expected to further intensify, and collaborative coordination
and cooperation among businesses working to create new added value should also progress. From these
changes, the required role of information and communications should both expand and become more
important.
Under those circumstances, NTT formulated and announced a medium-term management strategy in May
2015 for the period from FY 2015 to FY 2017 called “Towards the New Stage 2.0.” Under that plan, NTT
has worked to reform its business structure, utilized the management resources it had developed up to that
point, and endeavored to continuously improve the corporate value of the NTT Group by using and applying
information and communications technology (ICT). As a result, in the final consolidated fiscal year, the
target fiscal year, EPS (earnings per share), the most important target, reached JPY 456, achieving the target of
JPY 400 or more, and the operating revenue, operating income, and current net profits all reached record
highs.
At the same time, in the three years since the formulation and announcement of above plan, business has
continued to expand in and outside of Japan, but the external business environment is undergoing significant
changes and competition has remained strong. NTT is, as an initiative towards expanding its current B2B2X
business (Note 1), endeavoring to solve various social issues and create new social value by accumulating a
large amount of data in terms of type and volume by connecting everything with networks through the IoT
and utilizing the cloud, and then analyzing that data using AI. Specifically, NTT has a policy to utilize a
cognitive foundation (Note 2) and other systems, and promote smartification such as Smart City, Smart
Hospital, Smart Airport, Smart Stadium, and Smart Factory. In particular, by expanding collaborations with
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service providers such as businesses in other fields and local governments, and by supporting digital
transformations of service providers, NTT will contribute to resolving social issues and accelerate the creation
of new value.
(Note 1) Framework to solve social issues and provide new value creation to end users (X) together with
service providers by expanding collaborations with service providers such as businesses in other
fields and local governments (B) and supporting digital transformations of service providers
(Note 2) Framework that allows the integrated execution of the creation and configuration and the
management and operation of not only cloud and network services, but also user ICT resources
The NTT Group is aiming to achieve continuous growth over the medium- to long-term by supporting
transformation (digital transformation) of service providers and creating new businesses by utilizing the
personnel, technologies, and assets held by the NTT Group as “Your Value Partner”, with its constant
fundamental shared values of connect, trust, and integrity.
Meanwhile, according to the Target Press Release, in January 1986, the Target was established as a wholly-
owned subsidiary of NTT for the purpose of utilizing unused land owned by NTT. When the Target was
founded, the Target received land and buildings owned by NTT as investments in kind (Note 3). The Target
built new office buildings, retail facilities and residential facilities on the land, and has mainly operated rental
business of these real estate.
NTT established real estate companies across the country for the same purpose and by the same method.
The Target has expanded its asset size while implementing absorption-type merger with these companies. In
particular, the asset size of the Target reached the current level by implementing absorption-type merger with
real estate companies in five cities (Sapporo, Nagoya, Osaka, Hiroshima and Fukuoka) in April 1999.
In addition, the Target Shares were listed on the First Section of the TSE in November 2004, and then the
Target has advanced into new business: large-scale redevelopment, fund business (Fund management of REIT
and Fund), retail business (real estate rental business concerning retail facilities and hotels developed and
owned by the Target etc.), global business (investment and management of real estate in the United Kingdom
and the United States etc.), and has grown and expanded as a comprehensive real estate developer.
As of today, the Target Group (meaning, collectively, the Target, its consolidated subsidiaries and its equity-
method affiliates, hereinafter the same) consists of the Target, its 29 consolidated subsidiaries and its 26
equity-method affiliates. The main business of the Target Group is the Office/Retail Business (rental
business concerning real estate such as office buildings, retail facilities, hotels etc. which are developed and
owned by the Target) and the Residential Business (mainly for the sales of residential properties business, the
rental housing business and the serviced senior housing business etc.), and the Target Group engages the other
business such as building maintenance of office buildings.
In addition, the Target Group engages in comprehensive real estate business nationwide in a corporate group
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whose parent company is NTT which primarily engages in regional communications business, long distance
and international communications business, mobile communications business, and data communications
business.
The Target Group aims to enhance its corporate value by providing customers with valuable real estate
services, and to increase stakeholder satisfaction, in line with its corporate slogan of “Integrity of Innovation”.
In May 2013, the Target formulated the Medium-Term Vision 2018 – For Further Growth – for the period
from FY 2013 to FY 2018, based on environmental changes such as the continuation of development rush
mainly on the city center, rising construction costs and land and building prices mainly in the metropolitan
area. In this plan, the Target Group lists strengthening its revenue base in its each business and expanding
the business territory as its business policy, and is steadily proceeding with achieving financial targets and
expanding its management base.
While approaching the final fiscal year of this plan, the Target is concentrating on its each business to achieve
operating income of JPY 30 billion, which is the profit target for 2018 fiscal year, however, in addition to the
uncertainty about the future of the real estate market in Japan because of the downward trend of population
due to the declining birthrate and the aging population, there is a situation in which it is difficult to acquire
land such as remained high price of land for business, mainly in metropolitan areas.
Regarding the rental office market, the capacity utilization maintains high rate and the rents are also steady,
however, the large supply of buildings by the large-scale redevelopment continues in central Tokyo, for
example, even in the metropolitan area there is concern regarding the future supply-demand relationship.
Regarding the housing sales market, while the demand is strong mainly in properties in central Tokyo due to
the financial environment with low interest rate etc., with the prediction that the domestic population will
continue to decline in the future, it is necessary to keep an eye on its sustainability.
In these environment, the Target Group is proceeding with the following policy for its each business.
(a) The Office/Retail Business: Because of the anticipated continuous large supply of office buildings, the Target Group will strengthen its relations with tenants, maintain stable business operation, and provide offices that accommodate new work styles such as shared office.
(b) The Residential Business: The Target Group will carry out product planning from the customer’s perspective based on changes of lifestyle and demographics, and seeks further growth through the expansion of residential businesses for the elderly, the renovation business, and residential rentals business.
(c) New initiatives: In the Global business, the Target Group pursue to improve its assets value with the aim of sustainable growth and diversification of the portfolio. In the Hotel/Resort business, the Target Group aim to stabilize revenue early by accumulating know-how on hotel management and innovate it to composite development in the future. Regarding the NTT Group CRE (utilization of real estate owned by the NTT Group), the Target Group will further strengthen its growth strategy by developing redevelopment know-how accumulated since listing the Target Shares.
To realize sustainable growth in the future, the Target has promoted its business as stated (a) to (c) above in
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order to promote high value-added development without regard to the existing business framework, and has
entered a stage of further strengthening the growth strategy mainly supported by NTT Group CRE, in which
the Target has begun discussing urban development projects, including not only real estate owned by the NTT
Group but also its surrounding land in order to expand the know-how on redevelopment accumulated since
listing to the NTT Group CRE more than ever.
(Note 3) NTT established the Target in the form of subsequent incorporation (so-called irregular investment
in kind): NTT established the Target through money contribution and then handed over properties
that it had planned to contribute at bool values. When founded, the Target took over land and
building owned by NTT at book values.
The real estate business environment surrounding the NTT Group including the Target has, with respect to the
office leasing market in particular, seen steady improvement with vacancy rates at a low level and a broad
increase in rent against the backdrop of solid performances in the tenant business. At the same time, when
making investments to start operations of new properties, with a favorable financing environment on the back
of historically low interest rate levels resulting from the ongoing negative interest rate policy, competition in
the environment for acquiring sites for new development and properties is intensifying and it appears that
trend will continue in the future. Further, with respect to the residential property sales market, there has been
an increase in condominium sales prices resulting from a rise in construction and site acquisition costs,
demographic changes such as a decrease in the population of young people, an aging population, and an
increase in one-person households and changes to peoples’ lifestyles and work styles, and NTT believes it is
necessary to respond to those changes.
In those business environments, NTT believes it is important to promote urban solutions that are in a manner
unique to the NTT Group beyond its existing real estate development. With the aim of realizing a smart city
concept that aims to resolve a wide-range of urban problems such as preventing disasters and preventing
crime, resolving traffic problems, and reducing the environmental impact by utilizing IoT and managing and
controlling urban infrastructures with ICT, the NTT Group will work towards new urban solutions business
(the “Urban Solutions Business”) with the overall ability of the NTT Group by utilizing to the maximum
extent real estate, ICT, technology for energy efficiency, environmental technology and other resources held
by the NTT Group other than the Target Group, and through those efforts, the NTT Group will aim to achieve
profit growth for the entire NTT Group.
In aiming to achieve growth in the Urban Solutions Business, NTT believes it is important to have the Target,
which plays a central role in the real estate business in the NTT Group, take the lead in promoting the Urban
Solutions Business, combine the real estate held by the NTT Group and the strengths of each company such
as ICT, technology for energy efficiency, and environmental technology, and take full advantage of those
strengths. Specifically, NTT plans to unify the business strategies of the NTT Group and implement the
following measures.
i) Expand its business by utilizing real estate owned by telephone exchanges and offices, which are
telecommunications bases in regional cities throughout Japan that are owned by the NTT Group other
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than the Target Group
ii) Expand its business by strengthening alliances with the Target, which operates businesses such as real
estate development and management, and with NTT FACILITIES, INC. (“NTT FACILITIES”),
which manages construction and energy businesses that support the NTT Group’s ICT platforms, and
by actively utilizing resources connected with construction and energy
iii) Contribute to new “urban solutions” by utilizing all the resources of the NTT Group and collaborating
with enterprises and local governments
NTT believes that in order to swiftly promote the above initiatives and measures for the entire NTT Group, it
is important to strengthen group alliances more than ever by making the Target a wholly-owned subsidiary of
the Offeror and centralizing and streamlining decision making in the group management strategy, and it
believes the Target Group and the companies in the NTT Group other than the Target Group promoting
initiatives and measures swiftly in a unified manner is the ideal choice to improve the medium- to long-term
corporate value of the Target Group and the NTT Group including the Target Group.
Further, NTT believes that, in executing the above initiatives and measures, upfront investments that do not
automatically lead to maximizing the profits of the Target in the short term might arise and it might be
necessary to swiftly carry out measures such as a concentration of the assets of the entire NTT Group, which
would lead to a temporary cost increase, and although those measures will become necessary from the
perspective of the medium- to long-term growth of the Target Group and the entire NTT Group including the
Target Group, NTT has concerns from the perspective of flexible and agile decision-making about the
implementation of those measures while the Target is still a listed company because those measures may harm
the interests of existing shareholders of the Target in the short term.
Hence, NTT believes that, as a result of the Target becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Offerors
through the Transaction, any potential conflict of interest between the parent company and the minority
shareholders resulting from parent-subsidiary listings will be resolved and the Target’s decision making will
be even more flexible and agile, and NTT is able to promote growth that is built on the medium- to long-term
perspective of the Target Group and the NTT Group.
Based on that understanding, NTT determined that it would be desirable to make the Target a direct or indirect
wholly-owned subsidiary of NTT, and it started considering the Transaction from early May 2018. In early
July 2018, NTT appointed Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., Ltd. (“Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan
Stanley Securities”) as its financial advisor and third-party valuation agent, which is independent from the
Offerors and the Target, and Mori Hamada & Matsumoto as its legal advisor and NTT made an initial request
to the Target stating that it would like to consider and discuss the Transaction. Following that, NTT
commenced due diligence of the Target with the approval of the Target from late July 2018, and it completed
that due diligence in late August 2018.
NTT and the Target have had multiple discussions and deliberations since early September 2018 on measures
to improve the corporate value of both companies such as strengthening the Urban Solutions Business and
streamlining their management by promoting further group management, as well as matters such as the
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purpose of the Transaction, the management system and policy after the Transaction, and the conditions of the
Transaction.
As a result, NTT concluded at its board of directors meeting held today that making the Target a wholly-
owned subsidiary of the Offerors is the best way to improve the corporate value of the entire NTT Group, and
it decided to execute a series of transactions for the purpose of making the Target a wholly-owned subsidiary
of the Offerors by the Offeror acquiring all of the Target Shares (excluding the Target Shares Held by the
Parent Company of the Offeror and the Target’s treasury shares owned by the Target), and on the same date,
the Offeror decided to conduct the Tender Offer.
According to the Target Press Release, as stated in “B) Obtaining a Share Valuation Report and a Fairness
Opinion from an Independent Third-Party Valuation Agent by the Target” in “(Measures to Ensure Fairness in
the Tender Offer Such as Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Price and Measures to Avoid
Conflicts of Interest)” in “(ii) Background of the Calculation” in “(4) Basis of Calculation of the Tender Offer
Price” in “2 Overview of the Tender Offer” below, as a result of receipt of the initial request for the
Transaction from NTT in early July 2018, the Target appointed Nomura Securities as its financial advisor and
third-party valuation agent, which is independent from the Offerors and the Target, and TMI Associates as its
legal advisor, and the Target requested Nomura Securities, a third-party valuation agent, to calculate the value
of the Target Shares and to express an opinion that the Tender Offer Price is reasonable from a financial point
of view to shareholders of the Target excluding NTT (fairness opinion), in order to ensure the fairness of the
Transaction including the Tender Offer such as fairness of the Tender Offer Price. Also, the Target
established the third-party committee (for details of the composition and specific activities of the third-party
committee, see “D) Establishment of a Third-Party Committee that is Independent from the Offerors and the
Target” in “(Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Such as Measures to Ensure Fairness in the
Tender Offer Price and Measures to Avoid Conflicts of Interest)” in “(ii) Background of the Calculation” in
“(4) Basis of Calculation of the Tender Offer Price” in “2 Overview of the Tender Offer” below) in order to
examine the proposal of the Transaction.
Based on that, the Target have had multiple discussions and deliberations with NTT since early September
2018 on measures to improve the corporate value of both companies such as strengthening the Urban
Solutions Business and streamlining their management by promoting further group management, as well as
matters such as the purpose of the Transaction, the management system and policy after the Transaction, and
the conditions of the Transaction.
In addition, the Target received the legal advice from the legal advisor, TMI Associates, on the decision-
making process, the decision-making method and other points to be noted in making decisions concerning the
Transaction including the Tender Offer, and received the report from the Third-Party Committee on October
12, 2018 (the “Report") (For the outline of the Report and the detail of activities of the Third Party
Committee etc., please see “D) Establishment of a Third-Party Committee that is Independent from the
Offerors and the Target” in “(Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Such as Measures to Ensure
Fairness in the Tender Offer Price and Measures to Avoid Conflicts of Interest)” in “(ii) Background of the
Calculation” in “(4) Basis of Calculation of the Tender Offer Price” in “2 Overview of the Tender Offer”
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below). Furthermore, based on the legal advice given by the legal advisor, TMI Associates and the share
valuation report regarding the Target Shares (the “Target Share Valuation Report”) and the content of the
opinion that the Tender Offer Price is reasonable from a financial point of view to shareholders of the Target
excluding NTT (fairness opinion) provided by the third-party valuation agent, Nomura Securities on October
12, 2018, and respecting the contents of the Report provided by the third-party committee to the maximum
extent, the Target carefully discussed and examined conditions of the Transaction from the viewpoints of
whether it is possible to improve the corporate value of the Target through the Transaction, whether the Tender
Offer Price and any other conditions in the Transaction are appropriate, etc.
At the stage of further strengthening the growth strategy mainly supported by NTT Group CRE, the Target
believes that promoting business as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Offerors will contribute to the increased
corporate value over the mid- to long-term of the Target without the short-term risk of profit deterioration.
Specifically, in case that the Transaction is executed, the Target believes that the following synergies can be
realized by strengthening collaboration with the NTT Group.
(a) Increase of Opportunities to Participate in NTT Group’s Assets Utilization Business through the Urban Solutions Business
Although the Target is proceeding with acquisition of land for business centering on the metropolitan area, the price of land for business has remained high in the large metropolitan areas in recent years and the competition among business operators has become severer. The Target recognizes that it is not always easy to acquire land for business even in local cities through participation in central urban redevelopment projects, etc. The NTT Group owns many assets not only in the metropolitan area but also in local cities and if the Target participates in the Urban Solutions Business, the sharing of asset information owned by the NTT Group will proceed and the Target will be more likely to obtain such asset information, the Target believes that the Target will be able to have opportunities to acquire land for business and to expand Target’s revenue by increasing opportunities to participate in NTT Group's assets utilization business.
(b) Strengthening New Growth Fields by Using NTT Group's Strengths
While each real estate developer is trying to strengthen its growth field by developing new products and services that increase added value such as environmental performance and improvement of convenience and by expanding business area into the overseas markets etc., due to concern for long-term demand in the domestic real estate market on the background of the declining birthrate and aging population and the decrease in the labor force population, etc., the Target believes that efforts for these growth field are an important issue. The Target believes that the Target’s efforts to the Urban Solutions Business will be able to lead to the development of new real estate services that combine the real estates owned by the NTT Group and the strengths of each company such as ICT, energy efficiency improvement and environmental technology. In addition, the NTT Group has a global business foundation including providing ICT services around the world, and supports many Japanese companies’ overseas expansion by ICT. The Target believes that the Target is able to strengthen efforts in developed countries markets of the United States, Europe, and Australia, where the Target has been striving to achieve stable growth and portfolio diversification so far, as well as to secure access to the growing market such as Southeast Asia, by further strengthening collaboration with the NTT Group.
(c) Effective Utilization of Management Resources through Cooperation with the NTT Group Companies
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of which Business Fields are Close to the Target’s Business Field.
After the Transaction, NTT will strengthen the cooperation between the Target which operates development and management business of real estate, etc. and NTT FACILITIES which operates building and energy business that supports NTT Group's ICT foundation, actively utilize resources related to building, energy, etc., and expand business. NTT FACILITIES has advanced construction technology that follows the flow of historical Teishin building (telecommunication building) and is expanding various services that developed facility engineering and energy efficiency technology cultivated through the operation of communication facilities such as telephone stations, etc. NTT FACILITIES currently provides not only the NTT Group’s ICT foundation, but also a wide range of advanced services of building and energy for the administrative and local governments, etc., universities, companies, etc. across the country, and is aiming for further expansion of these businesses. In addition, because NTT Group’s ICT foundation is located all over Japan, NTT FACILITIES assigns specialized talented personnel with skills related to building, energy, etc. in the core city of the whole country. The Target believes that the following business synergies can be expected by strengthening cooperation between the Target and NTT FACILITIES in the management system that NTT intends to consider establishing after the Transaction.
The Target will be able to strengthen its business base in the local cities by collaborating with
NTT FACILITIES which has customer base of administrative and local governments, etc. and a business location base in the core cities throughout the country. By effectively utilizing human resources with advanced expertise skills such as first-class architect,
electrical chief engineer and qualified facility manager owned by NTT FACILITIES, the Target will be able to strengthen and expand growth areas including the Urban Solutions Business and existing businesses.
Since the Target and NTT FACILITIES operate similar businesses such as property management, building management, facility management in their business fields, the Target will be able to increase business efficiency by effectively utilizing both companies’ resources of these businesses.
The Target will be able to strengthen efforts for PPP (Note 4) and PFI (See Note 5) and create business opportunities through effective utilization of know-how of businesses for administrative and local governments that NTT FACILITIES has a track record, and by establishing a sales system that the Target and NTT FACILITIES cooperates.
It is expected that the expansion of earning base by mutual business collaboration on NTT FACILITIES and the Target’s customer base, such as CRE strategy support for NTT FACILITIES’ customer base of company and university, etc., and provision of solutions to tenants of buildings owned by the Target by NTT FACILITIES.
(d) Acceleration of the Target’s Growth by Unifying and Accelerating Decision-making in Group
Management Strategy
As a comprehensive real estate developer in the NTT Group, the Target has utilized various unused lands owned by the NTT Group so far. NTT believes that the Urban Solutions Business which is the purpose of implementation of the Transaction, includes the utilization of real estate such as the telephone offices which are the information communication bases of core cities nationwide owned by the NTT Group other than the Target Group. The Target believes that when utilizing the telephone office etc., there is problem specific to such business, such as the occurrence of the upfront investment and the need to promptly implement asset consolidation, thus, in order to solve these problems, it is necessary to establish a framework to
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strengthen collaboration with the NTT Group more than ever. In order to steadily promote the NTT Group CRE which is the pillar of our growth strategy, the Target believes that it is necessary to realize the unification and acceleration of decision-making in NTT Group's management strategy in the management structure that is considered to be constructed after the Transaction, which will allow the development of the Urban Solutions Business that the NTT Group is aiming for and will contribute to increasing the corporate value over the mid- to long-term of the NTT Group including the Target. (Note 4) Scheme in which the public sector and the private sector cooperate to provide public services (Note 5) Scheme which provides efficient and effective public services by utilizing private funds and
know-how for the design, construction, maintenance and management of public facilities, etc., and by providing public services led by a private sector.
Moreover, the Target, as a listed company, has taken into consideration the trend of the market share price and
has aimed to secure the interests of each fiscal year as one of the management objectives so far. Accordingly,
when promoting the Urban Solutions Business, it was difficult to promptly and smoothly promote the
utilization of telephone offices nationwide because there is concern that investment and cost burden not
directly linked to the maximization of the Target’s profits occurs in the short term due to its scale, as well as,
there is concern about conflicts of interest between NTT and minority shareholders of the Target depending on
the cost burden ratio with NTT Group. After the Transaction, the Target believes that the Target will be able
to invest quickly and smoothly as necessary from the viewpoint of medium- to long-term growth with
avoiding the impact on minority shareholders of the Target due to such short-term performance deterioration
and conflicts of interest between NTT and minority shareholders of the Target, by becoming a wholly owned
subsidiary of the Offerors, and to contribute to the vitality creation throughout Japan by the urban solutions
from a long-term perspective.
Based on the above, the Target has concluded that becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the Offerors
through the Transaction is the best option to improve the corporate value of the Target.
Further, in light of the following facts, the Target determined that the Tender Offer would provide the
shareholders of the Target with a reasonable opportunity to sell the Target Shares: (a) the Tender Offer Price
exceeds the range of the calculation results based of the average market price method and the comparable
company method and exceeds the midpoint of the range of the calculation result based on the discounted cash
flow method (“DCF Method”) among the calculation results for the share value of the Target Shares by
Nomura Securities set out in “B) Obtaining a Share Valuation Report and a Fairness Opinion from an
Independent Third-Party Valuation Agent by the Target” in “(Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer
Such as Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Price and Measures to Avoid Conflicts of Interest)”
in “(ii) Background of the Calculation” in “(4) Basis of Calculation of the Tender Offer Price” in “2 Overview
of the Tender Offer” below and the Target obtained the opinion that the Tender Offer Price is reasonable from
a financial point of view to shareholders of the Target excluding NTT (fairness opinion) from Nomura
Securities; (b) the Tender Offer Price is a price with a 28.64% premium (rounded off at the second decimal
place; this also applies to figures for premiums below) to the closing price of JPY 1,306 of the Target Shares
on the First Section of the TSE on October 12, 2018, which is the business day preceding the date of the
public announcement of the Tender Offer, a 31.56% premium to the simple average closing prices of JPY
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1,277 (rounded off decimal places; the same hereinafter regarding simple average closing prices) for the most
recent month up to October 12, 2018, a 39.19% premium to the simple average closing prices of JPY 1,207
for the most recent three months up to October 12, 2018 and a 39.77% premium to the simple average closing
prices of JPY 1,202 for the most recent six months up to October 12, 2018, respectively and the Tender Offer
Price is considered to be the price with a reasonable premium in comparison with the premium level in other
tender offer case for the purpose of making a target company a wholly owned subsidiary; (c) the measures to
resolve conflicts of interest set out in “(Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Such as Measures to
Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Price and Measures to Avoid Conflicts of Interest)” in “(ii) Background of
the Calculation” in “(4) Basis of Calculation of the Tender Offer Price” in “2 Overview of the Tender Offer”
below have been taken and the consideration has been given to the interests of minority shareholders; (d) the
Tender Offer Price was offered as a result of discussion and negotiation between the Target and NTT
equivalent to those under an arm’s length transaction, with measures to resolve conflicts of interest as stated
above, more specifically, with sincere and continued discussions and negotiations conducted based on the
calculation results of the Target Shares received from Nomura Securities and discussions with the third-party
committee.
Based on the reasons stated above, the Target resolved at the meeting of the board of directors held today to
express an opinion supporting the Tender Offer and to recommend the shareholders of the Target to tender in
the Tender Offer.
(ii) Management Policy after Completion of the Tender Offer
NTT has a policy where, after the Target has become a wholly-owned subsidiary, it will continue to conduct
management aimed at further improving the corporate value of the Target, and NTT will conduct management
that fully utilizes the Target’s business characteristics and strengths and endeavor to strengthen the Target’s
business. In addition, in order to establish a robust cooperative framework between each company of the
NTT Group other than the Target and the Target Group, and to achieve medium- to long-term growth of the
Urban Solutions Business of the entire NTT Group, NTT will consider establishing a new structure in which
the Target and NTT FACILITIES, which operates the construction and energy business that supports the ICT
platforms of the NTT Group, will coordinate with each other closely under the Offeror as the Urban Solutions
Business Promotion Company, by transferring NTT FACILITIES to under the control of the Offeror.
The management system of the Target after the Transaction has not been determined at this point, and it is
expected an optimal system aimed at executing the measures set out in “(i) Background Leading to the
Decision to Implement the Tender Offer and Purpose and Decision-Making Process of the Tender Offer”
above and further strengthening the Target’s business foundation will be established after discussions with the
Target.
(3) Matters regarding Important Agreements pertaining to the Tender Offer
The Offeror has confirmed that NTT, which is its wholly-owning parent company, does not plan on tendering
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the Target Shares Held by the Parent Company of the Offeror in the Tender Offer.
As stated in “(1) Overview of the Tender Offer” above, the Target Shares Held by the Parent Company of the
Offeror are to be acquired by the Offeror as consideration for the shares to be issued by the Offeror as a result
of the Contribution In Kind after the completion of the settlement of the Tender Offer and before the
completion of the Squeeze-out Procedures.
(4) Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Such as Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender
Offer Price and Measures to Avoid Conflicts of Interest
In light of the fact that the Target is a consolidated subsidiary of NTT, which is the wholly-owning parent
company of the Offeror, and the Transaction, which includes an expression of opinion regarding the Tender
Offer, constitutes an important transaction with a controlling shareholder, and the fact that the Offerors have
an inherent conflict of interests with shareholders of the Target other than NTT, the Offerors and the Target
have taken the following measures to ensure fairness in the Tender Offer and avoid any conflict of interest.
The following measures that have been taken by the Target in the following statements are based on the Target
Press Release and explanations from the Target.
Although the Offeror has not set a minimum number of Share Certificates, Etc. to be purchased of the so-
called “majority of minority” in the Tender Offer, it believes that because the measures set out in (i) through
(vi) below have been taken by the Offerors and the Target, the interests of the minority shareholders of the
Target have been sufficiently considered.
(i) Obtaining a share valuation report from an independent third-party valuation agent by NTT
(ii) Obtaining a share valuation report and a fairness opinion from an independent third-party valuation agent by the Target
(iii) Advice from an Independent law office
(iv) Establishment of a third-party committee that is independent from the Offerors and the Target
(v) Approval of all directors who do not have an interest in the Target and opinion by all corporate auditors who do not have an interest that there is no objection
(vi) Measures to ensure an opportunity to purchases by other purchasers
For details of the above, see “(Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Such as Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Price and Measures to Avoid Conflicts of Interest)” in “(ii) Background of the Calculation” in “(4) Basis of Calculation of the Tender Offer Price” in “2 Overview of the Tender Offer” below.
(5) Policy of Restructuring, Etc. after the Tender Offer (Matters Concerning So-Called Two-Step
Acquisition)
As mentioned in “(1) Overview of the Tender Offer” above, the Offeror has a policy to make the Target a
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wholly-owned subsidiary of the Offeror, and if the Offeror is not able to acquire all of the issued shares of the
Target through the Tender Offer (excluding the Target Shares Held by the Parent Company of the Offeror and
the Target’s treasury shares owned by the Target), the Offeror plans on conducting Squeeze-out Procedures so
that it will acquire all of the issued shares of the Target by any of the following methods after the completion
of the Tender Offer.
As stated in “(1) Overview of the Tender Offer” above, the Offeror plans on acquiring the Target Shares Held
by the Parent Company of the Offeror through the Contribution In Kind after the completion of the settlement
of the Tender Offer and before the completion of the Squeeze-out Procedures, but details such as the
transaction terms have not been determined at this point.
(i) Demand for Share Cash-Out
If the Offeror and NTT own in total 90% or more of the voting rights of all shareholders of the Target as a
result of the completion of the Tender Offer, as mentioned above, the Offeror will, promptly after the
completion of the settlement of the Tender Offer, acquire the Target Shares Held by the Parent Company of
the Offeror through the Contribution In Kind, and then make a demand to all of the shareholders of the Target
(excluding the Offeror and the Target) that did not tender shares in the Tender Offer (the “Cash-Out
Shareholders”) to sell all of the Target Shares they hold (the “Share Cash-Out Demand”) under the
provisions of Article 179, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act (Act No. 86 of 2005, as amended, hereinafter
the same). Cash equal to the amount of the Tender Offer Price is to be delivered to the Cash-Out
Shareholders in the Share Cash-Out Demand as consideration for each share of the Target Shares. In that
case, the Offeror will notify the Target to that effect and request approval from the Target for the Share Cash-
Out Demand. If the Target approves that Share Cash-Out Demand by a resolution of a meeting of its board
of directors, the Offeror will acquire all of the issued shares of the Target held by the Cash-Out Shareholders
as of the acquisition date in the Share Cash-Out Demand without requiring any individual approval of a Cash-
Out Shareholder in accordance with procedures prescribed in relevant laws and regulations. The Offeror is
to deliver cash equal to the Tender Offer Price for each share of the Target Shares to each Cash-Out
Shareholder as consideration for the Target Shares held by the Cash-Out Shareholders. According to the
Target Press Release, if the Target receives a notice of the Share Cash-Out Demand from the Offeror setting
out matters stipulated in each item of Article 179-2, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act , the Target will
approve the Share Cash-Out Demand by the Offeror at a meeting of the board of directors of the Target.
It is provided in the Companies Act as a provision to protect the rights of minority shareholders in relation to
the above procedures that a Cash-Out Shareholder may, in accordance with Article 179-8 of the Companies
Act and the provisions of other relevant laws and regulations, file a petition to the court for a determination of
the purchase price of the Target Shares it owns. If such a petition is filed, the purchase price will be
ultimately determined by the court.
(ii) Share Consolidation
If the Offeror and NTT do not own in total 90% or more of the voting rights of all shareholders of the Target
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in spite of the completion of the Tender Offer, the Offeror will make a request to the Target promptly after the
completion of the settlement of the Tender Offer to convene an extraordinary shareholders meeting of the
Target (the “Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting”) and to propose as agenda items at the Extraordinary
Shareholders Meeting a consolidation of the Target Shares (the “Share Consolidation”) and a partial
amendment to its Articles of Incorporation to abolish the provisions on share units as a condition to the Share
Consolidation taking effect, and the Offeror and (if NTT holds shares of the Target as of the record date
pertaining to the Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting) NTT are to approve those proposals at the
Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting. If the proposal for the Share Consolidation is approved at the
Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting, on the day on which the Share Consolidation takes effect, each
shareholder of the Target will own the Target Shares in a number that corresponds to the ratio of the Share
Consolidation approved at the Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting. The date on which that Share
Consolidation takes effect is to be set after the Contribution In Kind.
If a fraction less than one share arises in the number of shares as a result of the Share Consolidation, cash
obtained from selling to the Target or the Offeror the Target Shares in a number that is equal to the total
number of those fractions (if there is a fraction less than one share in that total number, that fraction is to be
rounded down, hereinafter the same) is to be delivered to the shareholders of the Target in accordance with the
procedures prescribed in Article 235 of the Companies Act and other relevant laws and regulations. With
respect to the sale price of the Target Shares equivalent to the total of those fractions, a petition will be filed to
a court for permission to make a sale by private contract after calculating the amount of cash to be delivered to
each shareholder of the Target (excluding the Offeror and the Target) that did not tender shares in the Tender
Offer as a result of that sale so that the amount of cash to be delivered is the same as the price obtained by
multiplying the Tender Offer Price by the number of Target Shares owned by each of those shareholders.
Further, although the ratio of the consolidation of the Target Shares has not been determined as of today, a
decision is to be made so that the number of Target Shares owned by the shareholders of the Target (excluding
the Offeror and the Target) that did not tender shares in the Tender Offer will be a fraction less than one share
so that the Offeror owns all of the Target Shares (excluding the Target’s treasury shares owned by the Target).
It is provided in the Companies Act as a provision to protect the rights of minority shareholders in relation to
the above procedures that if a fraction less than one share arises as a result of the Share Consolidation, any
shareholder of the Target may, in accordance with Article 182-4 and Article 182-5 of the Companies Act and
the provisions of other relevant laws and regulations, make a demand to the Target to purchase at a fair price
all of the shares owned by that shareholder that will become a fraction less than one share and file a petition to
the court for a determination of the price of the Target Shares. As explained above, given that the number of
the Target Shares owned by the shareholders of the Target (excluding the Offeror and the Target) that did not
tender shares in the Tender Offer will become a fraction less than one share in the Share Consolidation, the
shareholders of the Target that oppose the Share Consolidation will be able to file the above petition. If such
a petition is filed, the purchase price will be ultimately determined by the court.
The procedures in (i) and (ii) above might change to another method that has essentially the same effect
depending on circumstances such as any revision, enforcement, or interpretation by authorities of relevant
laws and regulations and factors such as the Ownership Ratio of the Share Certificates, Etc. of the Offeror and
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NTT after the Tender Offer and the ownership status of the Target Shares by shareholders other than the
Offeror. However, even in that case, the method of ultimately delivering cash to the shareholders of the
Target (excluding the Offeror and the Target) that have not tendered in the Tender Offer will be used, and the
amount of cash to be delivered to each of those shareholders in that case is to be calculated so that it is equal to
the price obtained by multiplying the Tender Offer Price by the number of the Target Shares owned by that
shareholder. Matters such as the specific procedures in the above case and the timing of the implementation
of those procedures are to be publicly announced by the Target once they have been determined following
discussions between the Target and the Offeror.
The Tender Offer is not intended to solicit the shareholders of the Target to approve the proposals at the
Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting. Each shareholder should consult with a certified public tax accountant
and other experts at its own responsibility on the handling of tax matters in relation to tendering shares in the
Tender Offer and the above procedures.
(6) Likelihood of Delisting and Reasons for that Delisting
Although the Target Shares are listed on the First Section of the TSE as of this date, the Offeror has not set a
maximum number of Share Certificates, Etc. to be purchased in the Tender Offer, so the Target Shares might
be delisted through prescribed procedures in accordance with delisting criteria prescribed by the TSE
depending on the result of the Tender Offer. Even if the Target Shares do not fall under those criteria upon
the completion of the Tender Offer, as explained in “(5) Policy of Restructuring, Etc. after the Tender Offer
(Matters Concerning So-Called Two-Step Acquisition)” above, if the Squeeze-out Procedures are
implemented, the Target Shares will be delisted through prescribed procedures in accordance with the
delisting criteria of the TSE. If the Target Shares are delisted, the Target Shares may not be traded on the
TSE.
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2. Overview of the Tender Offer
(1) Overview of the Target
(i) Name NTT Urban Development Corporation (ii) Address 4-14-1 Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (iii) Name and title of
representative Hiroshi Nakagawa, President and CEO
(iv) Description of business Leasing of offices and housing, sales of residential properties, etc. (v) Stated Capital JPY 48,760 million (vi) Date of incorporation January 21, 1986
(vii) Major shareholders and shareholding ratios (as of March 31, 2018)
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation 67.30%
Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd. (trust account) 3.50%
Goldman Sachs and Company regular account (Standing Proxy: Goldman Sachs Japan Co., Ltd.)
1.92%
The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. (trust account) 1.83%
CGML PB Client Account/Collateral (Standing Proxy: Citibank, N.A., Tokyo Branch)
1.21%
State Street Bank and Trust Company 505001 (Standing Proxy: Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Corporate Financial Sales Division)
0.85%
Northern Trust Company AVFC Re U.S. Tax-Exempted Pension Funds (Standing Proxy: The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Tokyo Branch, Custody Business Department)
0.82%
Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd. (Trust Account 5) 0.71%
State Street Bank and Trust Company 505019 (Standing Proxy: The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Tokyo Branch, Custody Business Department)
0.65%
The Bank of New York Mellon 140044 (Standing Proxy: Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Corporate Financial Sales Division)
0.62%
(viii) Relationship between the Listed Company and the Target
Capital relationship As of today, NTT holds 221,481,500 shares of the Target Shares (Ownership Ratio of 67.30%).
Personnel relationship As of today, one director and one corporate auditor of the Target are concurrently employees of NTT.
Business relationship
The Target leases offices to NTT. Transactions such as depositing and loaning of cash have been conducted with NTT Finance Corporation, whose parent company is NTT.
Status as related parties The Target is a consolidated subsidiary of NTT.
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(Note) The shareholding ratios set out in “(vii) Major shareholders and shareholding ratios (as of March 31, 2018)” and “(viii) Relationship between the Listed Company and the Target” are based on the “Status of Major Shareholders” in the annual securities report for FY 2017 submitted by the Target on June 22, 2018.
(2) Schedule and related matters
(i) Schedule
Date of Public Notice of Commencement of the Tender Offer
October 16, 2018 (Tuesday) An electronic public notice will be made, the effect of which will then be published in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun. (Electronic public notice address: http://disclosure.edinet-fsa.go.jp/)
Date of Submission of the Tender Offer Statement
October 16, 2018 (Tuesday)
(ii) Initial Period of the Tender Offer in the Statement
October 16, 2018 (Tuesday) until November 27, 2018 (Tuesday) (30 Business Days)
(iii) Possibility of Extending the Above Period upon Request of the Target
There are no applicable matters.
(3) Tender Offer Price
JPY 1,680 per share of common stock
(4) Basis of Calculation of the Tender Offer Price
(i) Basis of the Calculation
NTT, the wholly-owning parent company of the Offeror, in the course of determining the Tender Offer Price,
requested Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities, which is NTT’s financial advisor, to analyze the share
value of the Target as a third-party valuation agent that is independent from the Offerors and the Target.
Further, Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities is not a related party of the Offerors or the Target and does
not have any material interest in the Tender Offer.
Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities has, after considering the calculation method in the Tender Offer,
analyzed the share value of the Target using a market share price analysis, a comparable companies analysis,
and a discounted cash flow analysis (“DCF Analysis”), and NTT obtained a valuation report (the “Valuation
Report”) from Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities on October 12, 2018. NTT has not obtained a
fairness opinion on the Tender Offer Price from Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities.
The ranges of the share value per share of the Target Shares analyzed using each of the above methods are as
follows.
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Market share price analysis: JPY 1,202 – JPY 1,306
Comparable companies analysis: JPY 531 – JPY 1,681
DCF Analysis: JPY 1,288 – JPY 1,865
The market share price analysis, in which the base date is October 12, 2018, resulted in a per share value of
the Target Shares ranging from JPY 1,202 to JPY 1,306 based on the closing price of JPY 1,306 of the Target
Shares on the First Section of the TSE on the base date, the simple average closing price of JPY 1,277
(rounded to the nearest whole yen, hereinafter the same when calculating the share price) for the most recent
month (September 13, 2018 to October 12, 2018), the simple average closing price of JPY 1,207 for the most
recent three months (July 13, 2018 to October 12, 2018), and the simple average closing price of JPY 1,202
for the most recent six months (April 13, 2018 to October 12, 2018).
The comparable companies analysis resulted in a per share value of the Target Shares ranging from JPY 531
to JPY 1,681 after evaluating the share value of the Target by selecting listed companies engaged in relatively
similar businesses to those of the Target and using multiples of the earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation
and amortization with respect to the corporate value of those companies (the “EBITDA Multiples”),
multiples of the net profit for the period with respect to the market capitalization of those companies, and
multiples of the market net value (market net value taking into account tax on unrealized profits) with respect
to the market capitalization of those companies (“Adjusted Book Value Net Asset Multiples”).
The DCF Analysis resulted in a per share value of the Target Shares ranging from JPY 1,288 to JPY 1,865
after evaluating the corporate value and share value by discounting the free cash flow the Target is expected to
generate in the future to the present value at a certain discount rate based on earnings forecasts of the Target
from the fiscal year ending March 2019 taking into consideration various factors such as the Target’s business
plan, the latest business performance, and publicly available information.
(Note) In calculating the share value of the shares of the Target, Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities
has, in principle, used such things as information provided to it by the Offerors and the Target and
publicly available information as presented, and assumed that those materials, information and the
like are entirely accurate and complete. It has not made an independent study of the accuracy or
completeness thereof. Also, Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities has not conducted an
independent evaluation or assessment and has not requested an appraisal or assessment from a
third-party organization in connection with any assets or liabilities (including off-balance-sheet
assets and liabilities and other contingent liabilities) of any affiliate of the Target. In addition,
Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities assumed that information regarding the financial
forecasts of the Target have been reasonably prepared based on the best forecasts and judgements
of the management of the Target at that time. Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities analyzed
information regarding the financial forecasts of the Target assuming that it has been prepared based
on the Japanese accounting standard, while the Target Group has announced that it will apply IFRS
from the fiscal year ending March 2019 voluntarily. The calculation by Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan
Stanley Securities reflects the above information up to October 12, 2018.
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NTT, which is the wholly-owning parent company of the Offeror, ultimately determined by resolution of a
meeting of its board of directors today that the Tender Offer Price is a per share value of JPY 1,680 in light of
the results of discussions and negotiations with the Target by comprehensively considering factors such as the
result of the calculation in the Valuation Report obtained from Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities,
whether the Tender Offer is approved by the board of directors of the Target, examples of premiums that have
been provided upon determination of the tender offer price in past tender offers by persons other than an issuer
which are similar to the Tender Offer (tender offer by a parent company where its listed subsidiary was to
become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the parent company), trends in the market price of the Target Shares,
the results of due diligence of the Target conducted from late July to late August 2018, and the prospect of
shares being tendered in the Tender Offer.
The per share value of JPY 1,680, which is the Tender Offer Price, is an amount that was calculated by adding
a premium of 28.64% to the closing price of the Target Shares of JPY 1,306 on the First Section of the TSE on
October 12, 2018, which is the business day immediately preceding the day on which the Tender Offer is
publicly announced by the Offeror, a premium of 31.56% on the simple average closing price of JPY 1,277
for the most recent month (September 13, 2018 to October 12, 2018), a premium of 39.19% on the simple
average closing price of JPY 1,207 for the most recent three months (July 13, 2018 to October 12, 2018), and
a premium of 39.77% on the simple average closing price of JPY 1,202 for the most recent six months (April
13, 2018 to October 12, 2018).
(ii) Background of the Calculation
(Background Leading to Determination of the Tender Offer Price)
NTT determined that it would be desirable to make the Target a direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of
NTT, and it started considering the Transaction from early May 2018. In early July 2018, NTT appointed
Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities as its financial advisor and third-party valuation agent, which is
independent from the Offerors and the Target, and Mori Hamada & Matsumoto as its legal advisor and NTT
made an initial request to the Target stating that it would like to consider and discuss the Transaction.
Following that, NTT commenced due diligence of the Target with the approval of the Target from late July
2018, and it completed that due diligence in late August 2018. NTT and the Target have had multiple
discussions and deliberations since early September 2018 on measures to improve the corporate value of both
companies such as strengthening the Urban Solutions Business and streamlining their management by
promoting further group management, as well as the purpose of the Transaction, the management system and
policy after the Transaction, and the conditions of the Transaction.
As a result, NTT concluded at the board of directors meeting held today that making the Target a wholly-
owned subsidiary of the Offerors is the best way to improve the corporate value of the entire NTT Group, and
it decided to execute a series of transactions for the purpose of making the Target a wholly-owned subsidiary
of the Offeror by the Offeror acquiring all of the Target Shares (excluding the Target Shares Held by the
Parent Company of the Offeror and the Target’s treasury shares owned by the Target), and on the same date,
the Offeror decided to conduct the Tender Offer.
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The Offerors also determined the Tender Offer Price based on the following background.
i) Name of the Third Party from Which an Opinion was Obtained upon Calculation of the Tender Offer
Price
To ensure fairness in the Tender Offer Price, in the course of determining the Tender Offer Price, NTT
requested Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities, which is NTT’s financial advisor, to analyze the
share value of the Target as a third-party valuation agent that is independent from the Offerors and the
Target, and NTT obtained from Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities the Valuation Report on
October 12, 2018. Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities is not a related party of the Offerors or
the Target and does not have any material interest in the Tender Offer.
ii) Overview of the Opinion
According to the Valuation Report, the methods used and the ranges of the per share value of the Target
Shares calculated based on those methods are as follows.
Market share price analysis: JPY 1,202 – JPY 1,306
Comparable companies analysis: JPY 531 – JPY 1,681
DCF Analysis: JPY 1,288 – JPY 1,865
iii) Background Leading to the Determination of the Tender Offer Price Based on that Opinion
NTT, which is the wholly-owning parent company of the Offeror, ultimately determined by resolution
of a meeting of its board of directors today that the Tender Offer Price is a per share value of JPY
1,680 in light of the results of discussions and negotiations with the Target by comprehensively
considering factors such as the result of the calculation in the Valuation Report obtained from
Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities, whether the Tender Offer is approved by the board of
directors of the Target, examples of premiums that have been provided upon determination of the
tender offer price in past tender offers by persons other than an issuer which are similar to the Tender
Offer (tender offer by a parent company where its listed subsidiary was to become a wholly-owned
subsidiary of the parent company), trends in the market price of the Target Shares, the results of due
diligence of the Target conducted from late July to late August 2018, and the prospect of shares being
tendered in the Tender Offer.
(Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Such as Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Price and
Measures to Avoid Conflicts of Interest)
In light of the fact that the Target is a consolidated subsidiary of NTT, which is the wholly-owning parent
company of the Offeror, and the Transaction, which includes an expression of opinion regarding the Tender
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Offer, constitutes an important transaction with a controlling shareholder, and the fact that the Offerors have a
structural conflict of interests with shareholders of the Target other than NTT, the Offerors and the Target have
taken the following measures to ensure fairness in the Tender Offer and avoid any conflict of interest. The
measures that have been taken by the Target in the following statements are based on the Target Press Release
and explanations from the Target.
Note that although the Offeror has not set a minimum number of Share Certificates, Etc. to be purchased of
the so-called “majority of minority” in the Tender Offer, it believes that because the measures set out in (A)
through (F) below have been taken by the Offerors and the Target, the interests of the minority shareholders of
the Target have been fully considered.
A) Obtaining a Share Valuation Report from an Independent Third-Party Valuation Agent by NTT
To ensure fairness in the Tender Offer Price, in the course of determining the Tender Offer Price, NTT
requested Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities, which is NTT’s financial advisor, to analyze the share
value of the Target as a third-party valuation agent that is independent from the Offerors and the Target, and
NTT obtained from Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities the Valuation Report on October 12, 2018.
Further, Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities is not a related party of the Offerors or the Target and does
not have any material interest in the Tender Offer. NTT has not obtained a fairness opinion on the Tender
Offer Price from Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities.
For an overview of the Valuation Report, see “Basis of the Calculation” and “(Background Leading to
Determination of the Tender Offer Price)” in “Background of the Calculation” above.
B) Obtaining a Share Valuation Report and a Fairness Opinion from an Independent Third-Party Valuation Agent
by the Target
According to the Target Press Release, for the purpose of expressing its opinion regarding the Tender Offer,
the Target, in order to ensure the fairness in the decision-making process of the Target regarding the Tender
Offer Price, the Target requested Nomura Securities, a third-party valuation agent that is independent from the
Offerors and the Target, to calculate the value of the Target Shares and to express an opinion that the Tender
Offer Price is reasonable from a financial point of view to shareholders of the Target excluding NTT (fairness
opinion).
Nomura Securities, a third-party valuation agent, is not a related party of the Offerors or the Target, and has no
material interest in the Tender Offer.
Nomura Securities, based on its assessment of valuation methods in the Tender Offer, calculated the value of
the Target Shares using (i) the average market price method, since the Target Shares are listed on the First
Section of the TSE; (ii) the comparable company method, since there are listed companies for which
comparison to the Target is possible, and, accordingly, it is possible to estimate the value of the Target Shares
by comparing the Target with those similar companies; and (iii) the DCF Method, in order to reflect the
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performance of the Target’s future business activities on the valuation. The Target obtained the Target Share
Valuation Report from Nomura Securities on October 12, 2018. Further, the Target obtained the opinion that
the Tender Offer Price is reasonable from a financial point of view to shareholders of the Target excluding
NTT (fairness opinion) from Nomura Securities.
According to Nomura Securities, the methods adopted for the calculation of the value of the Target Shares and
the ranges of the per share values of the Target Shares, as calculated under each of the relevant methods, are as
follows:
Average market price method: JPY 1,202 – JPY 1,319
Comparable company method: JPY 698 – JPY 1,393
DCF Method: JPY 945 – JPY 1,970
In the average market price method, the calculation base date was set as of October 12, 2018, and the price
range of per share value of the Target Shares was calculated to be JPY 1,202 to JPY 1,319 based on the
closing price of JPY 1,306 of the Target Shares on the First Section of the TSE on the base date, the simple
average closing prices of JPY 1,319 for the most recent five business days, the simple average closing prices
of JPY 1,277 for the most recent month, the simple average closing price of JPY 1,207 for the most recent
three months and the simple average closing price of JPY 1,202 for the most recent six months.
In the comparable company method, Nomura Securities selected Nomura Real Estate Holdings, Inc., Mitsui
Fudosan Co., Ltd, Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd, Sumitomo Realty & Development Co., Ltd., Tokyo Tatemono
Co., Ltd., Heiwa Real Estate Co., LTD. and Daibiru Corporation as comparable companies, and calculated
the value of the Target Shares, applying the multiple of EBITDA to the enterprise value (the “EBITDA
Multiple”) and the Adjusted Book Value Net Asset Multiples. As a result, the price range of per share value
of the Target Shares was calculated to be JPY 698 to JPY 1,393.
In the DCF Method, Nomura Securities, after having considered the reasonable assumptions, including the
profit forecast and investment projects based on the business plans prepared by the Target from the fiscal year
ending March 31, 2019, to the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023, evaluated the corporate value by
discounting the free cash flows that the Target is expected to generate in the future in and after the fiscal year
ending March 31, 2019, to the present value by using a certain discount rate in proportion to the business risks.
For the discount rate under the said analysis, 2.50% to 3.00% was applied, and, in calculating the eternal
values, the exit multiples method and the perpetuity growth method were used, and the EBITDA Multiple was
set at 19.0x to 21.0x and the perpetuity growth rate was set at 0.30% to 0.50%. As a result, the price range of
per share value of the Target Shares was calculated to be JPY 945 to JPY 1,970.
The financial forecasts on the basis of the Target’s business plan, based on which Nomura Securities
calculated in the DCF Method, are as follows. The following financial forecasts do not include any fiscal
year that are expected significant increase or decrease in profit. Further, the relevant financial forecasts were
not prepared based on the assumption that the Transaction would be implemented.
(Unit: JPY million)
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fiscal year ending March
2019
fiscal year ending March
2020
fiscal year ending March
2021
fiscal year ending March
2022
fiscal year ending March
2023 Operating Revenue
168,240 169,638 158,064 159,041 169,275
Operating Income
30,000 30,000 32,005 32,850 34,911
EBITDA 48,260 50,228 53,509 54,614 57,256
Free Cash Flow ▲4,661 ▲4,164 ▲8,061 ▲5,064 11,107
(Note 1) Although the Target Group has decided to voluntarily adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) from the fiscal year ending March 2019, the financial forecasts above were prepared based on J GAAP.
(Note 2) As for the main fluctuation factors of free cash flow, it is anticipated that free cash flow will decrease due to increasing in acquisition cost of rental assets in the fiscal year ending March 2019 to March 2022. In fiscal year ending March 2023, it is anticipated that free cash flow will increase due to decreasing in acquisition cost of rental assets.
C) Advice from an Independent Law Office
According to the Target Press Release, the Target, in order to ensure the transparency and rationality in the
decision-making process of the board of directors of the Target regarding the Transaction including the Tender
Offer, selected TMI Associates as its legal advisor that is independent from the Offerors and the Target and
received legal advice on the decision-making method and process and other issues regarding the Transaction
including the Tender Offer. TMI Associates is not a related party of the Offerors or the Target, and has no
material interest in the Tender Offer.
D) Establishment of a Third-Party Committee that is Independent from the Offerors and the Target
According to the Target Press Release, In light of the fact that the Target is a consolidated subsidiary of NTT,
the wholly-owning parent company of the Offeror, and the Transaction including expressing an opinion
regarding the Tender Offer falls under “important transactions, etc. with controlling shareholders”, the Target
established a third-party committee on August 16, 2018, in order to carefully make decisions regarding the
Transaction, to eliminate arbitrariness and concern of conflicts of interest and to ensure the fairness of the
decision-making process regarding the Transaction. The third-party committee consists of members who is
independent from the Offerors and the Target including outside experts: Akira Komatsu (outside and
independent director of the Target), Shiro Tanikawa (outside and independent director of the Target), Eiji
Masuda (attorney at Masuda & Partners law office) and Yuji Kato (a certified public accountant and
representative director of Eichi Financial Advisory Inc.).
The Target consulted the third-party committee regarding (i) the Reasonableness of the purpose of the
Transaction, (ii) the fairness of the terms of the Transaction including the Tender Offer Price, (iii) the
sufficiency of consideration to be given to minority shareholders of the Target through the fair process
regarding the Transaction, and (iv) whether the Transaction is disadvantageous to the minority shareholders of
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the Target based on (i) through (iii) and other factors (collectively, the “Reference Matters”).
The third-party committee convened a total of 7 times between August 16, 2018 and October 9, 2018, and
carefully discussed and examined the Reference Matters. Specifically, the third-party committee examined
required documents including documents received from the Target and NTT, interviewed officers and
employees of the Target, Nomura Securities, TMI associates, officers and employees of NTT, Mitsubishi UFJ
Morgan Stanley Securities and Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, received explanations on details, backgrounds,
circumstances, significance and purposes of the Transaction, details, conditions and future prospectus of the
Target’s business, management issues of the Target, detail of business plan of the Target, impact of the
Transaction for the Target and measures to ensure fairness and to avoid conflicts of interest taken by the Target
and Offerors and held Q&A sessions with them.
The third-party committee also received an explanation from Nomura Securities regarding the process and the
results of the calculation of the share value of the Target Shares, an explanation from TMI Associates on the
decision-making methods and process of the Target’s board of directors and other issues regarding the
decision-making and held Q&A sessions with them.
Under the circumstances above, as a result of discussion with Nomura Securities and TMI Associates and
having carefully discussed and examined the Reference Matters, the third-party committee submitted a report
to the board of directors of the Target on October 12, 2018 in agreement of all the members on certain
conditions such as that information received by the third-party committee are true and accurate, the
Transaction including the Tender Offer is lawful and the matters concerning the procedure regarding the
Transaction which was explained as being scheduled will be implemented as explained. The overview of the
Report is as follows.
(a) Reasonableness of Purpose of Transaction
The measures specifically listed by the Offerors can be recognized to enable the Target to secure the opportunity to acquire land for business, to strengthen its revenue base by promoting high value-added development without regard to the existing business framework and to contribute promotion of the NTT Group CRE. Therefore, it can be said that those measures suit their purpose regarding management issues of the Target. In addition, the Transaction can be recognized to have a possibility of creating business synergies with the NTT Group involves, which is not easy for the Target to realize alone without the Transaction, such as creation of business opportunities by securing the opportunity to acquire land for business owned by the NTT Group and expansion of the business area by actively utilizing the resources related to buildings and energy owned by NTT FACILITIES. Based on the above, it can be said that the Transaction contributes to the solution of management issues of the Target. Between NTT and the Target, there is no discrepancy in the recognition regarding the importance and various merits of strengthening group alliance more than ever by making the Target a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Offeror and centralizing and streamlining decision making in the group management strategy, and the content of their recognition is considered generally reasonable. Therefore, it can be recognized that there is the necessity to make the Target a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Offeror in order to solve management issues of the Target more effectively. In addition, in light of the fact that, due to the nature of disadvantages arising from the Target becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Offerors, there is a possibility to overcome the disadvantages by various corporate efforts future by the Target, disadvantages arising from the Target becoming delisted is not considered to exceed merit
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arising from the Target becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Offerors. Furthermore, regarding the timing of the Transaction, the transaction can be recognized to be reasonable and suitable for the time, and regarding the influence of the Transaction on employee of the Target, the Transaction can be recognized to have positive significance for employees of the Target. In the Transaction, it is scheduled to squeeze-out minority shareholders of the Target. In executing the measures scheduled after the Transaction, upfront investments that do not necessarily lead to maximizing the profits of the Target in the short term might arise and it might be necessary to swiftly carry out measures such as a concentration of the assets of the entire NTT Group, which would lead to a temporary cost increase, and although those measures will become necessary from the perspective of the medium- to long-term growth of the Target and the entire NTT Group including the Target Group, it will be difficult to implement those measures while the Target is still a listed company because those measures may harm the interests of existing shareholders of the Target in the short term. Based on the above and other factors, in case where the Offerors do not make the Target a wholly-owned subsidiary, there is a possibility that pursuit of short-term profits is prioritized rather than executing measures from the medium- to long-term perspective and it may hinder the executing measures that will contribute to the solution of management issues of the Target. In addition, in case where the Target executes those measures without the Offerors making the Target a wholly-owned subsidiary, it may result that the minority shareholders of the Target will bear the risk of stock price fluctuation arising from a decline in profits or temporary deterioration of business results of the Target. Therefore, the Transaction has a significance to increase the feasibility of executing measures scheduled after the Transaction and to prevent the minority shareholders of the Target from burdening the risk of stock price fluctuation, in this respect, it can be recognized that there is the necessity to make the Target a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Offerors and the Transaction contributes to increasing the corporate value of the Target. In addition to the above, in light of the fact that there are no factors to base any unfairness on the reason for executing the Transaction, in relation to minority shareholders of the Target, the purpose of the Transaction can be recognized legitimate. As stated above, since the Transaction can be recognized to contribute to increasing the corporate value of the Target and, in relation to minority shareholders of the Target, the purpose of the Transaction can be recognized legitimate, it can be said that the purpose of the Transaction is reasonable.
(b) Fairness of the terms of the tender offer (including the Tender Offer Price) in the Transaction
The Tender Offer can be recognized to have adopted measures to ensure an objective status to secure the adequacy of the tender offer price, such as establishing the purchasing period of 30 business days, which is a relatively longer period than the minimum period of 20 business days that is established by the laws and regulations. In addition, according to the calculation results of the Target’s share value by Nomura Securities, the Tender Offer Price is recognized to be a price within the range of the calculation result by the DCF Method (the perpetuity growth method and the exit multiples method), and exceeds the upper limit of the calculation result by the average market price method and the comparable company method. Furthermore, the Target can be recognized to have considered the reasonableness of the Tender Offer Price from the perspective of placing importance on protecting the interests of the minority shareholders of the Target and other matters, and engaged in negotiations with NTT, while taking into account the opinion of Nomura Securities, and it can be recognized that a premium has been ensured for the Tender Offer Price of the Transaction that compares favorably even when compared to the proportion of the premiums that have been attached in recent similar tender offers (tender offers by a consolidated parent company for the purpose of making its listed consolidated subsidiary a wholly-owned subsidiary disclosed in the past 3 years). Therefore, it can be said that fairness has been ensured in the formation process of the Tender Offer Price, and by taking into account
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that the Target obtained an opinion regarding the reasonableness of the tender offer price (fairness opinion) from Nomura Securities, the reasonableness and validity of The Tender Offer Price can be recognized. In addition, consideration of the same amount as the Tender Offer Price will be delivered to shareholders of the Target who do not tender in the Tender Offer upon the Share Cash-Out Demand or the Share Consolidation after the Tender Offer, and in light of such effect being scheduled to be disclosed by the disclosure materials and the purchasing period being set for a relatively longer period of time, nothing unfair can be seen in the terms of the Tender Offer besides the Tender Offer Price. Based on the above, it is recognized that fairness is ensured in the terms of the Transaction (including the Tender Offer Price), which includes the Tender Offer.
(c) Fairness of procedures in the Transaction
In light of (i) a disclosure that can be recognized to be sufficient in regards to the process leading up to the execution of the Transaction, being scheduled to be made, (ii) the Share Cash-Out Demand or the Share Consolidation being adopted for the Squeeze-out Procedures after the Tender Offer and the right to make a demand to the Target to purchase at a fair price and the right to file a petition to the court for a determination of the purchase price being entitled to shareholders of the Target, and (iii) the same price as the Tender Offer Price becoming the standard for the consideration delivered upon the Share Cash-Out Demand or the Share Consolidation, and that effect is scheduled to be disclosed by the disclosure materials, it can be recognized that measures to ensure opportunities for shareholders of the Target to make adequate determinations have been adopted. In addition, in light of (i) the third-party committee’s report and result that are expected to be given serious consideration, (ii) a resolution by the approval of all of the directors excluding Masahiro Kajiwara, who is a director with special interest (and the expression of an opinion that there is no objection by all of the auditors excluding Takeshi Arimoto, who is concurrently a corporate officer of the purchaser) being scheduled to be made at the board of directors meeting scheduled to be held on October 15, 2018, (iii) independent advice regarding the decision-making process and decision-making methods, etc. for the Transaction having been obtained from TMI Associates, and (iv) the Target Share Valuation Report and an opinion regarding the reasonableness of the Tender Offer Price (fairness opinion) having been obtained from Nomura Securities, which is a third-party valuation agent that is independent, measures to eliminate arbitrariness can be recognized to have been used in the decision-making process. Furthermore, the period for the Tender Offer (the “Tender Offer Period”) has been set to be a relatively longer period, and even if competing offerors actually appear, since the fact that an agreement or the like that restricts such competing offerors from making contact, etc. with the Target cannot be recognized, measures to ensure objective conditions to secure the adequacy of the price are recognized to have been taken. Based on the above, it can be recognized that sufficient consideration has been given to the interests of shareholders of the Target through fair procedures, since, in the Transaction, which includes the Tender Offer, the Target’s arbitrariness can be recognized to have been sufficiently eliminated by adopting various measures, and opportunities for adequate determinations have been ensured for shareholders of the Target.
(d) Whether the Transaction is disadvantageous to the minority shareholders of the Target
In light of it being recognized that the purpose of the Transaction is reasonable and that sufficient consideration can be recognized for the interests of shareholders of the Target through the ensuring of fairness of the terms of the tender offer of the Transaction and fair procedures, as stated in (a) to (c) above, the Transaction, which includes the Tender Offer, can be recognized to not be disadvantageous to the minority shareholders of the Target.
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E) Approval of all Directors who do not have an Interest in the Target and Opinion by all Corporate Auditors
who do not have an Interest that there is no Objection
According to the Target Press Release, at the meeting of the board of directors held today, all the directors
other than Masahiro Kajiwara of 14 directors (including 2 outside directors) of the Target participated in the
deliberations and resolutions and the Target resolved unanimously by all the directors participated in the
resolutions to express an opinion supporting the Tender Offer and to recommend the shareholders of the
Target to tender in the Tender Offer based on the grounds and reasons set out in “Background Leading to the
Decision to Implement the Tender Offer and Purpose and Decision-Making Process of the Tender Offer” in
“(2) Background Leading to the Decision to Implement the Tender Offer, Purpose and Decision-Making
Process of the Tender Offer, and Management Policy after the Tender Offer” in “1 Purpose of the Tender Offer”
above.
Further, at the aforementioned meeting of the board of directors, 3 company auditors other than Takeshi
Arimoto of 4 company auditors (including 3 outside company auditors) of the Target participated in
deliberations, and all of those company auditors stated that they had no objection to expressing an opinion
supporting the Tender Offer and recommending the shareholders of the Target to tender in the Tender Offer by
the Target’s board of directors.
For avoiding a suspicion of conflicts of interest, Masahiro Kajiwara, who serves concurrently as an employee
of NTT, the wholly-owning parent company of the Offeror, did not participate in the deliberations and
resolutions regarding the Tender Offer at the aforementioned meeting of the board of directors, nor did he
participate in examination of the Transaction and discussions and negotiations with the Offerors on behalf of
the Target.
Also, for avoiding a suspicion of conflicts of interest, Takeshi Arimoto, who serves concurrently as an
employee of NTT, the wholly-owning parent company of the Offeror, did not participate in the deliberations
regarding the Tender Offer at the aforementioned meeting of the board of directors.
F) Measures to Ensure an Opportunity to Purchases by Other Purchasers
While the statutory requirement of the tender offer period is 20 business days at minimum, the Offeror will set
the Tender Offer Period as 30 business days. By setting a relatively long tender offer period, the Offeror
intends to ensure the fairness of the Tender Offer Price by providing the shareholders of the Target with an
opportunity to properly determine whether to tender their shares in the Tender Offer and also by providing an
opportunity for a third party other than the Offeror to purchase the Target Shares.
In addition, the Offerors and the Target have not entered into any agreement that would restrict competing
offerors from contacting the Target such as an agreement with a deal protection provision that prohibits the
Target from contacting competing offerors. In this way, the Offerors are giving consideration to securing
fairness in the Tender Offer by setting the above tender offer period and ensuring an opportunity for
competing offers.
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(iii) Relationship with the Valuation Agent
Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities, which is the financial advisor (valuation agent) of NTT, which is
the wholly-owning parent company of the Offeror, is not a related party of the Offerors or the Target and does
not have any material interest in the Transaction including the Tender Offer.
(5) Number of Share Certificates, Etc. to Be Purchased
Number of Share Certificates, Etc. to be Purchased
Minimum Number of Share Certificates, Etc. to be Purchased
Maximum Number of Share Certificates, Etc. to be Purchased
107,638,423(shares) ―(shares) ―(shares)
(Note 1) No minimum or maximum number of Share Certificates, Etc. to be purchased has been set in the Tender Offer, so the Offeror will purchase all of the Tendered Share Certificates, Etc. The number of Share Certificates, Etc. to be purchased sets out the maximum number of Share Certificates, Etc. of the Target to be acquired by the Offeror in the Tender Offer (107,638,423 shares). That maximum number of share certificates is the number of shares (107,638,423 shares) obtained by deducting the number of Target’s treasury shares owned by the Target as of June 30, 2018 set out in the Target’s Summary of Accounts (77 shares) and the number of the Target Shares Held by the Parent Company of the Offeror (221,481,500 shares) from the total number of issued shares as of August 6, 2018 set out in the Target’s Quarterly Securities Report (329,120,000 shares).
(Note 2) Shares less than one unit are also eligible for the Tender Offer. In addition, the Target will purchase shares of the Target during the Tender Offer Period in accordance with procedures set out in laws and regulations if a shareholder exercises its right to request the purchase of shares less than one unit in accordance with the Companies Act.
(Note 3) The Offeror does not intend to acquire the Target’s treasury shares owned by the Target through the Tender Offer.
(6) Changes in Ownership of Share Certificates, Etc. due to the Tender Offer
Number of voting rights represented by Share Certificates, Etc. held by the Offeror before the Tender Offer
— voting rights (Ratio of ownership of Share Certificates, Etc. of —% before the Tender Offer)
Number of voting rights represented by Share Certificates, Etc. held by specially related parties before the Tender Offer
2,214,815 voting rights (Ratio of ownership of Share Certificates, Etc. of 67.30% before the Tender Offer)
Number of voting rights represented by Share Certificates, Etc. held by the Offeror after the Tender Offer
1,076,384 voting rights (Ratio of ownership of Share Certificates, Etc. of 32.70% after the Tender Offer)
Number of voting rights represented by Share Certificates, Etc. held by specially related parties after the
2,214,815 voting rights (Ratio of ownership of Share Certificates, Etc. of 67.30% after the Tender Offer)
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Tender Offer
Number of voting rights of all of the shareholders of the Target
3,291,145 voting rights
(Note 1) “Number of voting rights represented by Share Certificates, Etc. held by the Offeror after the Tender Offer” sets out the number of voting rights pertaining to the number of Share Certificates, Etc. to be purchased in the Tender Offer (107,638,423 shares).
(Note 2) The “Number of voting rights of all of the shareholders of the Target” is the number of voting rights of all shareholders set out in the Target’s Quarterly Securities Report. However, given that shares less than one unit are also to be purchased in the Tender Offer, in the calculation of the “ownership ratio of Share Certificates, Etc. before the Tender Offer” and the “ownership ratio of Share Certificates, Etc. after the Tender Offer”, the number of voting rights (3,291,199 voting rights) pertaining to the number of shares (329,119,923 shares) obtained by deducting the number of shares owned by the Target as of June 30, 2018 set out in the Target’s Summary of Accounts (77 shares) from the total number of issued shares as of August 6, 2018 set out in the Target’s Quarterly Securities Report (329,120,000 shares) was used as the “Number of voting rights of all of the shareholders of the Target.”
(Note 3) The figures in the “ownership ratio of Share Certificates, Etc. before the Tender Offer” and the “ownership ratio of Share Certificates, Etc. after the Tender Offer” are rounded to two decimal places.
(7) Purchase Price: JPY 180,832,550,640
(Note) The purchase price is an amount obtained by multiplying the Tender Offer Price (JPY 1,680 per share) by the number of shares to be purchased in the Tender Offer (107,638,423 shares).
(8) Method of Settlement
(i) Name and Location of Head Office of Financial Instruments Business Operator or Bank, etc. in Charge of Settlement of the Tender Offer
Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., Ltd., 2-5-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
kabu.com Securities Co., Ltd. (subagent), 1-3-2 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
(ii) Commencement Date of the Settlement
December 4, 2018 (Tuesday)
(iii) Method of Settlement
A written notice of the purchase is to be sent to the address or location of each Tendering Shareholder (in the
case of a foreign shareholder, its standing proxy) without delay after the completion of the Tender Offer
Period. Delivery by the subagent is to be made by electronic or magnetic means via the screen after logging
in.
The purchases are to be made in cash. The sale proceeds pertaining to the Share Certificates, Etc. that have
been purchased are to be remitted from the tender offer agent or the subagent to a location specified by each
Tendering Shareholder (in the case of a foreign shareholder, its standing proxy) without delay after the
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commencement date of the settlement as instructed by the Tendering Shareholder (in the case of a foreign
shareholder, its standing proxy).
(iv) Method of Returning Share Certificates, Etc.
If all of the Tendered Share Certificates, Etc. are not purchased under the conditions set out in “(ii) Conditions for Withdrawal of the Tender Offer, Details Thereof and Method of Disclosing the Withdrawal” in “(9) Other Conditions and Methods of the Tender Offer” below, the Share Certificates, Etc. that are to be returned will be returned by restoring the record to the status immediately preceding the tendering of those Share Certificates, Etc. promptly after the day that is two business days after the last day of the Tender Offer Period (if the Tender Offer has been withdrawn, the date of that withdrawal).
(9) Other Conditions and Methods of the Tender Offer
(i) Conditions Listed in the Items of Article 27-13, Paragraph (4) of the Act and the Details of Those Conditions
Because no minimum or maximum number of Share Certificates, Etc. to be purchased has been set in the
Tender Offer, the Offeror will purchase all of the Tendered Share Certificates, Etc.
(ii) Conditions for Withdrawal of the Tender Offer, Details Thereof and Method of Disclosing the Withdrawal
Upon the occurrence of any event falling under the provisions of Article 14, paragraph (1), item (i), subitems
(a) through (i) and subitems (l) through (r), item (iii), subitems (a) through (h) and subitem (j), and Article 14,
paragraph (2), items (iii) through (vi) of the Order for Enforcement of the Financial Instruments and Exchange
Act (Cabinet Order No. 321 of 1965 (as amended); the Order”), the Offeror may withdraw the Tender Offer.
In the Tender Offer, “facts equivalent to those set forth in (a) through (i)” prescribed in Article 14, paragraph
(1), item (iii), subitem (j) of the Order means (i) where it is discovered that there is a false statement about a
material particular or an omission of a statement about a material particular that is required to be stated with
respect to any statutory disclosure documents submitted by the Target in the past, and the Offeror does not
know about that false statement or omission, or could not become aware of that false statement or omission despite
having used reasonable care, and (ii) where an event listed in subitems (a) through (g) of that item occurs with
respect to a major subsidiary of the Target.
If the Offeror decides to withdraw the Tender Offer, the Offeror will make a public notice electronically and
publish a notice in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun. However, if it is difficult to make a public notice by the final
day of the Tender Offer Period, the Offeror will make an announcement by the method prescribed in Article
20 of the Cabinet Office Order on Disclosure Required for Tender Offer for Share Certificates by Persons
Other Than Issuers (Ministry of Finance Order No. 38 of 1990 (as amended); the “Cabinet Office Order”)
and thereafter give public notice without delay.
(iii) Conditions for Reducing the Tender Offer Price, Details thereof and Method of Disclosing the Reduction
If the Target conducts any act prescribed in Article 13, paragraph (1) of the Order during the Tender Offer
Period, the purchase price may be reduced in accordance with the standards prescribed in Article 19,
paragraph (1) of the Cabinet Office Order pursuant to the provisions of Article 27-6, paragraph (1), item (i) of
the Act,.
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If the Offeror decides to reduce the purchase price, the Offeror will make a public notice electronically and
publish a notice in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun. However, if it is difficult to make a public notice by the final
day of the Tender Offer Period, the Offeror will make an announcement by the method prescribed in Article
20 of the Cabinet Office Order and thereafter give public notice without delay.
If the purchase price is reduced, the Tendered Share Certificates, Etc. that were tendered before the date of that
public notice will also be purchased at the reduced purchase price.
(iv) Matters concerning the Tendering Shareholders’ Rights to Cancel Agreements
Any Tendering Shareholder may cancel any agreement relating to the Tender Offer at any time during the
Tender Offer Period. If an agreement is to be cancelled through the tender offer agent, the relevant
Tendering Shareholder is to deliver or send a Tender Offer Application Receipt and a document stating that
the agreement pertaining to the Tender Offer will be cancelled (the “Cancellation Documents”) to the head
office or any branch in Japan of the tender offer agent that received an application of tender no later than
16:00 on the last day of the Tender Offer Period. The cancellation of the agreement will take effect when the
Cancellation Documents have been delivered or have reached the person specified below. However, if the
Cancellation Documents are sent, they must reach the person specified below no later than 16:00 on the last
day of the Tender Offer Period. If an agreement that was tendered through kabu.com Securities Co., Ltd.,
which is the subagent, is to be cancelled, please conduct cancellation procedures no later than 16:00 on the last
day of the Tender Offer Period via the screen after logging in by the method set out on the “Tender Offer
(TOB)” page (https://kabu.com/item/tob/) on that company’s website (https://kabu.com/).
Person with authority to receive the Cancellation Documents
Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., Ltd.
2-5-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
(or any branch in Japan of Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., Ltd.)
The Offeror will not make any claim for damages or the payment of a penalty to a Tendering Shareholder in
connection with the cancellation of an agreement by that Tendering Shareholder. In addition, the Offeror
will bear the costs of returning the Tendered Share Certificates, Etc.
If a request for cancellation is submitted, the Tendered Share Certificates, Etc. will be returned by the method set out in “(iv) Method of Returning Share Certificates, Etc.” in “(8) Method of Settlement” above promptly after completion of the procedures .
(v) Method of Disclosure if Conditions, etc., of the Tender Offer are Changed
The Offeror may change the conditions of the Tender Offer during the Tender Offer Period, except for any
change prohibited by Article 27-6, paragraph (1) of the Act or Article 13 of the Order.
If the Offeror intends to change the Tender Offer conditions, etc., the Offeror will make a public notice
electronically and publish a notice in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun detailing those changes. However, if it is
difficult to make a public notice by the final day of the Tender Offer Period, the Offeror will make an
announcement by the method prescribed in Article 20 of the Cabinet Office Order and thereafter give public
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notice without delay.
If the Tender Offer conditions, etc., are changed, the Tendered Share Certificates, Etc. that were tendered
before the date of that public notice will also be purchased under those changed conditions.
(vi) Method of Disclosure When Submitting an Amended Statement
If an amended statement is submitted to the Director-General of the Kanto Local Finance Bureau (excluding
the case prescribed in the proviso of Article 27-8, paragraph (11) of the Act), the Offeror will immediately
announce the details set out in that amended statement that relate to the contents of the public notice of the
commencement of the Tender Offer by the method prescribed in Article 20 of the Cabinet Office Order. The
Offeror will also immediately amend the tender offer explanation and deliver the amended tender offer
explanation to each Tendering Shareholder that has received a tender offer explanation. However, if an
amendment is only minor in nature, the Offeror will prepare a document stating the reasons for that
amendment, the items that have been amended and the amended contents, and deliver that document to the
Tendering Shareholders.
(vii) Method of Disclosing the Results of the Tender Offer
The Offeror will publicly announce the results of the Tender Offer the day immediately following the last day
of the Tender Offer Period, in accordance with the provisions of Article 9-4 of the Order and Article 30-2 of
the Cabinet Office Order.
(10) Date of Public Notice of Commencement of the Tender Offer
October 16, 2018 (Tuesday)
(11) Tender Offer Agent
Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., Ltd. 2-5-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
kabu.com Securities Co., Ltd. (subagent) 1-3-2 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
3. Policy after the Tender Offer and Future Outlook
See “(2) Background Leading to the Decision to Implement the Tender Offer, Purpose and Decision-Making Process of the Tender Offer, and Management Policy after the Tender Offer,” “(5) Policy of Restructuring, Etc. after the Tender Offer (Matters Concerning So-Called Two-Step Acquisition),” and “(6) Likelihood of Delisting and Reasons for that Delisting” in “1 Purpose of the Tender Offer” above.
4. Other Matters
(1) Agreements between the Offeror and the Target or its Officers, and the Terms Thereof
(i) Agreements Between the Offeror and the Target
According to the Target Press Release, at the meeting of its board of directors held today, the Target expressed
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an opinion endorsing the Tender Offer and resolved to recommend the Tender Offer to the Target’s
shareholders.
For details of the above resolution of the board of directors of the Target, see the Target Press Release and “E)
Approval of all Directors who do not have an Interest in the Target and Opinion by all Corporate Auditors
who do not have an Interest that there is no Objection” in “(Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer
Such as Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Price and Measures to Avoid Conflicts of Interest)”
in “(ii) Background of the Calculation” in “(4) Basis of Calculation of the Tender Offer Price” in “2 Overview
of the Tender Offer” above.
(ii) Agreements Between the Offeror and Officers of the Target
There are no applicable matters.
(iii) Background Leading to the Decision to Implement the Tender Offer, Purpose and Decision-Making Process of the Tender Offer, and Management Policy After the Tender Offer
See “(2) Background Leading to the Decision to Implement the Tender Offer, Purpose and Decision-Making Process of the Tender Offer, and Management Policy after the Tender Offer” in “1 Purpose of the Tender Offer” above.
(iv) Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Such as Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Price and Measures to Avoid Conflicts of Interest
For details of the above, see “(Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Such as Measures to Ensure Fairness in the Tender Offer Price and Measures to Avoid Conflicts of Interest)” in “(ii) Background of the Calculation” in “(4) Basis of Calculation of the Tender Offer Price” in “2 Overview of the Tender Offer” above.
(2) Other Information Necessary for Investors to Decide whether to Accept the Tender Offer
Not applicable
5. Overview of NTT-SH Corporation
Location 1-5-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Name and title of representative Katsumi Kuroda, President and Representative Director Description of business Holding and managing the Target Shares Stated Capital JPY 3 million
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Takumi Matsumoto or Takayuki Kimura Investor Relations Office Finance and Accounting Department Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation TEL: +81-3-6838-5481
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This press release is to announce the Tender Offer to the public and has not been prepared for the purpose of soliciting an offer to sell
shares. If shareholders wish to make an offer to sell their shares, they should first read the Tender Offer Explanatory Statement for the
Tender Offer and make their own independent decision. This press release does not constitute, nor form part of, any offer to sell,
solicitation of a sale of, or any solicitation of any offer to buy, any securities. In addition, neither this press release (or any part of it) nor
the fact of its distribution shall form the basis of or be relied on in connection with any agreement thereof.
Although the Tender Offer will be conducted in accordance with the procedures and information disclosure standards prescribed in the
Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, these procedures and standards may differ from the procedures and information disclosure
standards in the United States. In particular, Sections 13(e) and 14(d) of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (as amended, the
“U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934”), and the rules prescribed thereunder do not apply to the Tender Offer, and the Tender Offer does
not conform to those procedures and standards. The financial information contained in this press release may not necessarily be
comparable to the financial statements of U.S. companies. It may be difficult to enforce any right or claim arising under U.S. federal
securities laws because the Offeror and the Company are incorporated outside the United States and their directors are non-U.S. residents.
Shareholders may not be able to sue a company outside the United States and its directors in a non-U.S. court for violations of the U.S.
securities laws. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that shareholders will be able to compel a company outside the United States or its
subsidiaries and affiliates to subject themselves to the jurisdiction of a U.S. court.
Unless otherwise specified, all procedures relating to the Tender Offer shall be conducted entirely in Japanese. While some or all of
the documentation relating to the Tender Offer will be prepared in English, if there is any inconsistency between the English
documentation and the Japanese documentation, the Japanese documentation will prevail.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined in Section 27A of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and
Section 21E of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Known or unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors could cause actual
results to differ substantially from the projections and other matters expressly or impliedly set forth herein as “forward-looking
statements.” None of the Offeror, the Company or any of their respective affiliates assures that such express or implied projections set
forth herein as "forward-looking statements" will eventually prove to be correct. The "forward-looking statements" contained in this
press release have been prepared based on the information held by the Offeror and the Company as of the date hereof and, unless
otherwise required under applicable laws and regulations, none of the Offeror, the Company or any of their respective affiliates assumes
any obligation to update or revise this press release to reflect any future events or circumstances.
Some countries or regions may impose restrictions on the announcement, issue or distribution of this press release. In such cases,
please take note of such restrictions and comply with them. In countries or regions where the implementation of the Tender Offer is
illegal, even upon receiving this press release, such receipt shall not constitute a solicitation of an offer to sell or an offer to buy shares
relating to the Tender Offer and shall be deemed a distribution of materials for informative purposes only.
Each of the financial advisors (including their affiliates) to the Offeror and the Company may, in its ordinary course of business,
purchase shares in the Company for its own account or for the account of its clients prior to the Tender Offer or during the Tender Offer
Period outside the Tender Offer in accordance with the requirements of Rule 14e-5(b) of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or take
actions for such purchase to the extent permitted by financial instruments and exchange related laws and regulations and other applicable
laws and regulations of Japan. If any information concerning such purchase is disclosed in Japan, the relevant financial advisor will
disclose such information on its English website (or by any other means of public disclosure).